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NOVEMBER 1 2008
AMERICANWAY
*JaneKaczmarek is best known for playing
characters that are crazed, complicated,
and sometimes downrightmean. (It’s all an
act.) ByKenParishPerkins
NoPlain Jane
*
The phone rings. It’s Jane Kaczmarek on the line, and I
start to sweat a little. After all, this is the woman who
expertly played the manic mother on
Malcolm in the
Middle
and provided the voice of the tyrannical judge on
The Simpsons
. This fall, she’s played a similarly menacing
courtroom queen— but in the flesh— on her new TNT
drama,
Raising theBar
,whichwraps up its successful first
season thismonth. Just howdaunting is her character?
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