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ENTERTAINMENT
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2002
WEATHER
NEW YORK — Nearly every TV season brings a newly designated "It Girl."
The Associated Press
Last fall, Jennifer Garner of Alias was clearly "It."
In years before that she was Keri Russell of Felicity. Jenna Elfman of Dharma & Greg. Sarah Michelle Gallar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A title first bestowed on silent-screen siren Clara Bow, "It Girl" had racer overtones 75 years ago.
TVseason's'ItGirl'emerges
Now, in the television age, "It" anoints an emerging starlet who seems to lead the pack in fresh-faced appeal ... a gal the whole nation can have a crush on.
This fall, Ashley Williams is a shoo-in with her new romantic comedy, Good Morning Miami, which airs at 9:30 p.m. EDT Thursdays on NBC.
Williams plays Dylan Messinger, the pixieish hairstylist for a local morning TV show whose snarky host (played by Matt Letscher) she is dating —
And can anyviewer blame him?
With her larky presence and dazzling smile, Dylan (that is,
Williams) is the essence of It-itude.
"They needed a new Fall face," says Williams, flashing that smile gratefully, "and I was right there, with bells on."
much to the consternation of the show's just-hired producer (Mark Feuerstein), who is also her tormented secret admirer.
Williams, who turns 24 next month, has come a long way since March, when she won the role.
On the other hand, she is no beginner. As a youngster growing up just outside of New York, she staged living-room productions with her brother and older sister, Kimberly (who now co-stars on the BIC sitcom According to Jim).
"Our parents' poor dinner guests would be forced to sit through our performances," she said.
By her early teens, she was appearing in commercials.
She managed to juggle her high school studies with a regular role
on the CBS soap As the World Turns.
Then last winter she landed at her sister's house in Los Angeles, borrowed a friend's car and wangled an audition for Good Morning Miami.
And as she presses on toward long-term success, she's relishing her moment in the "it" Parade.
A half-year and "a mind-boggling miracle" later, Williams is plushly lodged on Must-See TV and lives just a block from her sister (they have the same commute to the studio lot where both their series shoot).
Completing high school in 1997, Williams left World when they sent her character to Helsinki, Finland, and headed to Boston University's theater conservatory, where she said no one knew she had been on a soap and she could be a normal kid.
After college, she spent time at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts and understudied for the off-Broadway hit The Shape of Things.
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2 Enthusiastic
3 Breakfast or dinner
4 Overwhelming fear
1 Florida city
6 "Paper Lion" star
10 French cleric
14 Of part of the eye
15 Chicken quarters
16 Before long
17 Climbing vine
18 Three Wise Men
19 Jokester
20 Improvised
22 Always, in a poem
24 Coupe, e.g.
25 Advanced the motion
27 Peas' place
27 Bell and Barker
32 Lairs
33 Finding the means
36 Processes flour
40 Edit out
41 One step
43 Bread spread
44 Sneeringly derogatory
46 Verticality
48 Two of Caesar's final words
50 Classic car
51 DDE's arena
52 Surveillance devices
56 Family member
58 Beast
59 Emotes
64 Inactive
65 Feudal serf
67 chloride (refrigerant)
68 Rank
69 Without ice
70 Use a poker
71 Mouth off
72 Poi source
73 Used a keyboard
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2 Enthusiastic
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27 Paper tablets
28 Cooking box
29 Where heroes
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bed
34 Saviors
35 A Cole
37 Cut and run
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49 Innate ability
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54 Irritates
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