Having trouble letting go of that one episode of your favorite series?
Grieving a gone-too-soon show?
It hit me harder than expected when Julia Louis-Dreyfus revealed her breast cancer diagnosislast month.
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Im sure Im not alone.
I didnt go back to her oldSNLsketches or those fourArrested Developmentepisodes featuring Maggie Lizer.
It developed verisimilitude in its distinctiveness.
(She co-ran a womens gym with Barb.)
Itsmy family, she yelps.
You feel her pain.
She even takes her own family picture with Richie, which winds up perfectly imperfect.
Louis-Dreyfus plays Christines meltdown in the episode with a mix of mean-spiritedness, sadness, and genuinely good intent.
Even at her most hysterical God, Ihatethis place!
For a CBS sitcom, the show also drove home an impressively progressive agenda.
(Lizer even bluntly said that sexismplayed a factorin its treatment.)
Its her best performance because its her most human character, nonetheless requiring her incomparable comic skill-set.
Thank goodness for cable reruns.
