Love me some Fran Drescher. Back in the day, I thought like a lot of people, oh she’s just that woman with the crazy voice, but then my SO happened upon her show The Nanny and he started watching it and finally got me to check it out. I was hooked instantly. Ms. Drescher is not only beautiful, she is hilariously funny. She is able to pull off physical comedy in a similar way that Lucille Ball did on I Love Lucy, but she’s also got a very quick wit and the writing on that show, some of which was done by her and her former husband, Peter Marc Jacobsen, was brilliant. She also has the knack for pulling together stellar ensemble casts with The Nanny and Happily Divorced. I really like her, too in that she has really opened the eyes of a lot of people with regards to cancer (she’s a uterine cancer survivor) and gay rights (her husband came out as gay after the The Nanny show was over). She and he together, produce her current show Happily Divorced. And I think she’s mighty sexy. Here’s a few highlights from The Nanny
And everybody (who’s been on her for awhile) already knows of my deep admiration for Alan Rickman. His voice alone would do it for me, even if he was simply doing recitations from the phone book. Luckily, Mr. Rickman has a wide range of theatrical successes under his belt, The Harry Potter series being one of them. If you want to see Severus Snape in something completely different, check out Snow Cake and Dark Harbor
Other favorites: Patrick Stewart, Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Judi Densch, James McAvoy, David Hyde Pierce, Julie Andrews, David Ogden Stiers and John C. McGinley.