Known essentially for her roles on TV, Debra Messing, an Emmy and SAG-winning actress, is best recognized for her show Will & Grace and, way before that, a sitcom called Ned and Stacey, one which essentially launched her career. A blind man can see a pattern clearly emerging with that resume, and it wouldn’t surprise us if Messing announced future roles in the remakes of Tango & Cash, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Owl and the Pussycat….well, you get the drift. Born in Brooklyn, Messing’s the daughter of Jewish American parents, her father being a sales executive for a jewel manufacturer. So it only stood to reason that the family would move to Providence, Rhode Island, the Cubic Zirconia capital of the United States. A summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in theater arts, Messing went on to earn a Master’s Degree in fine arts. While the inflated degrees do sound impressive, the reality is you’re spending time in school analyzing old Jean Paul Belmondo movies for the various noir influences upon the broken nosed Frenchman’s leather jackets and Gauloises cigarettes. With some equally prestigious America’s Junior Miss titles under her belt, Messing was ready for the big time and started in pre-Broadway, a stamp of approval which is analogous to pre-pre-boarding a Delta flight. But who’s to argue with this comely redhead’s success? None of us have credits from NYPD Blue, Seinfeld or even the post- Ernest Borgnine McHale’s Navy movie. Sporting an ensemble from The Arabian Nights collection, Messing, you’ll note, isn’t readily blessed in the abundance department. In fact, one of the avid readers of this site - Sean- once remarked that Messing’s chest has been used by carrier pilots for practice takeoffs and landings. A cruel thought which is way beneath our dignity to have authored it, of course. But, disturbingly, one can’t take away from the fact, either, that Messing, upon closeup, is also afflicted with farmer’s foot, an ungamely condition accrued from years of mopping out pig troughs sans workboots. A spy satellite photo also detects varicose swelling in the left ankle. And, yes, Messing has a justified malpractice suit against her pedicurist. A judge rules “1″ in the preliminary hearing.
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