"I always say they're literally eternal. They're cool and sexy, and everybody is intrigued by the thought of living forever. They're just something that we all could kind of relate to - it's that piece of mortality that feels so daunting. Like, 'What if that was lifted from my shoulders?'"
Krakowski was almost the photo-negative of Calista Flockhart's title character: brassy, eccentric, unconcerned by others' opinions. Similarly, her character in 30 Rock, Jenna Maroney, acted as the bookend to Tina Fey's Liz Lemon, Krakowski untouched by self-awareness, Fey beset by it.
Nicholson plays Samantha Redmond, who has picked up the nickname Sinatra because of the chairman-of-the-board-like authority she exudes, a mix of steeliness and charisma that's allowed her to create and populate an underground city for chosen survivors of a global cataclysm.
"Scarface" actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio looked like any other New Yorker while riding the subway in the West Village recently. The actress, 67, went unnoticed as she took a seat, wearing jeans, a puffer jacket, earmuffs and mittens, while holding a shopping bag. Mastrantonio made her Broadway debut as an understudy in the 1980 revival of "West Side Story" and three years later made her screen debut in "Scarface," playing Al Pacino's sister.