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Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart)
Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart) is a 30-year old lawyer at Cage & Fish. Ally is a very vivid character.
She is single-minded about what she wants. She says what she thinks, and especially what she feels, and often instantly regrets the words that fly out of her mouth. She believes in displaying her emotions instead of holding them to her heart; so if she is upset, she will show it, and similarly, if she is happy, she will not hesitate to show it either. She has some strange notions; in fact she is willing to believe things most people won't.
She is innocent and childlike and embodies the hopes and dreams most of us hold inside. She is, in a way, an example of what life might be like, if the irrational, make-believe world each of us lives in could take over the real world around us.
She is a strange combination of conflicting attitudes and beliefs. She is fiercely independent and focused, but at the same time, she is extremely lonely. She is a realist in every way, and in the same breath, she is a hopeless romantic, who believes that true love exists, and that it
will happen to her one day.
She admits that finding someone to love is the most important thing in her life. She wants to find someone that she can be with forever, someone she can tell all her secrets to.
Richard Fish (Greg Germann)
He's the lawyer we love to hate, and his character's view on life - as expressed in those cynical "Fishisms" - have made him one of the most popular characters of the show.
Richard Fish (Greg Germann) is the founder of Cage & Fish. He is consumed by thoughts of money. He is also quite obsessed with wattles, the flesh on a woman's neck! This causes problems between him and his ex-girlfriend Whipper (Dyan Cannon). He was Ally's classmate at Harvard Law School before she joined his firm.
John Cage (Peter MacNicol)
He plays the bagpipes, dances to the music of Barry White and succumbs to frequent scene stopping "moments" to silently consider an unusual new legal strategy, even if it interrupts a trial. John Cage (Peter MacNicol) is one of the senior partners at Cage & Fish.
Affectionately referred to by everyone as "The Biscuit", he is a small man with dark hair and eyes and a slim physique. He has a slight complex about his short stature, and as a result, when searching for a partner, he never forgets to wear high-heeled shoes. It is typical of John to see profundity and meaning in the apparently meaningless, hope and happiness in what is otherwise bleak and barren.
Like Ally, he too is strange and eccentric. And his idiosyncrasies manifest themselves in a variety of sounds, for which he is famous: nose whistles to show his embarrassments, stomach rumbles, squeaky shoes, a clicking to make his objections, whooshing blowtorches, show tunes, pop songs, and the theme from
Mr Ed, which he is forever humming.
Acting on the advice of his therapist, he practises "smile therapy" to meet difficult situations. The result is often hilarious as he puts up a fixed, almost unnatural, plastic smile to confront all adverse situations. Professionally, he is an excellent advocate. And while he indignantly calls his opponents tricksters, nobody is as much as a trickster as he.
He is a very intelligent man, and a master at manipulating language to achieve the desired effect. Again, like Ally, his quest to find true love is constant. But unfortunately, most of these forays end in failure. His most close and profound relationship, to date, has been with his pet frog, Stefan. He showers all his devotion on the frog. But this is short-lived, unfortunately, with the untimely death of Stefan.
Elaine Vassal (Jane Krakowski)
Elaine Vassal (Jane Krakowski) is Ally's secretary. She's extremely nosy, and is known as the office busybody. She is constantly listening in on conversations in the unisex bathroom. She's fast, she's organised, but she's also willing to sue her own firm for bankruptcy in one of her foul moods. Elaine is a lot deeper than she lets others believe.
Elaine starves for attention. She is actually a very lonely person. She wants people to like her and accept her, and if sex appeal gets her there, then she doesn't mind using it. Like Ally, Elaine has the guts to say or do what most of us would never do for fear of social rejection. To sum it up, there is definitely more to Elaine than meets the eye. She is very intriguing and fascinating, not to mention funny and witty!
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