Nip/Tuck Celebrities Great and Greater
Nip/Tuck Celebrities Great and Greater by Roxanne McDonald
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It’s a good day for vidiots when the biggest news (good or bad) is who will be guest-starring on “Nip/Tuck”. |
We already get sucked into “Nip/Tuck” for several aesthetic and other reasons—including the stunning sets, the succulent central characters (and the actors who portray them), the supremely relevant soundtrack, and the blade-runner dialogue and story
development. So it is not necessary but certainly a plus to have featured celebrities appear as multidimensional (or intentionally rendered uni-dimensional) characters who come to Troy/McNamara for cosmetic reconstruction.
Rosie O’Donnell made her second season’s appearance on Nip Tuck as the nouveau riche Dawn (or, “Dwan”) who this time went hang gliding and was attacked by a fully matured eagle in mid air soar. Ever the dismissive and sexist one, Christian stresses their procedure to repair her mangled face will include sewing her big mouth shut.
Jacqueline Bissett, the epitome of grace and class, made several visits to the show last year as the malevolent organ poacher who did none of the actual dirty work herself but commandeered the thefts by blackmail and coercion and contributed to the deliciously depraved closing episodes of the season.
Oliver Platt pleased many “Nip/Tuck” veteran viewers (and “Huff” lamenters) when he joined the show with performances only Platt could make into a character both smarmy and loveable at once.
And several seasoned stars have made their way to the OR doors for their characters’ vain purposes, greedy intentions, or salacious needfulness or desperation or depravity. While, for instance, while Peter Dinklage, Portia de Rossi, Andrew Leeds, Alanis Morissette, Paula Marshall, Vanessa Redgrave (playing Julia’s mother, appropriately), and Brooke Shields, among many others, have entered as marginal characters, they have exited as much more substantial and substantive additions to the “Nip/Tuck” script.
Ryan Murphy and colleagues have an uncanny (from the original, unheimlich, unhomelike) gift for casting into parts that are written as cleverly contrastive, as foils to existing cast members; that are delightfully suggestive in their counter to the balance of
buddy-banter dynamics for seduction scenes; or that are uniquely rich and profound as layers contributing to the furthering of the Nip/Tuck storyline…which had BETTER not end any time soon, dammit.
So it is with great intrigue we watch and watch for the appearances yet to come—including that of New York [Tiffany Pollard] in the December 4th episode…, which is not as odd a casting choice as one outside the workings of the show might think.
Nothing too far-fetched is left unretrieved; nothing too straightjacket-worthy is left unrestrained; and nothing too unspeakable is left unspoken. Such is the borderline displeasing pleasure of “Nip/Tuck” with its virtually new approach of using big name celebrities to crank up that final notch on the device that is unique and edgy and amplified beyond anything else on TV.
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