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Show JiiliiillhUliiiliiUiiiiilililiiilliiiiliiu Wednesday, September 12, 2001 iliii.iilnililiniii.iiiiHiilliih Hennessy brings law & anger to Crossing Jordan By Jacqueline Cutler cTVData Features Syndicate Some network executive finally got it: Women do, indeed, get angry. an-gry. And not just stomping a sensible sen-sible pump perturbed, but aiming a powerful kick between the male boss's legs livid. This may not seem like much, but consider how often women are shown losing it on TV. In Crossing Jordan. Jill Hennessy Law & Order) is perfectly furious furi-ous as smart, tough medical examiner ex-aminer Jordan Cavanaugh. The NBC drama premieres Monday, Sept. 17. Demonstrations of anger often are entertaining, like when Denis Leary lets loose on ABC's The Job. and such is the case with Hennessy. Coincidentally, both characters are forced into anger management classes, a major annoyance an-noyance for people who use their rage as a supreme motivating tool. Much of Jordan's anger stems from losing her mother to murder at 11. Her father, Max (Ken Howard, The White Shadow), is a former cop. Father and daughter used to play a game of dissecting crimes to figure out who did it As adept at fitting together the pieces as both of them arc, they never solved the murder most important to them. Jordan is in a mandated anger management class when her old boss. Dr. Garret Macy (Miguel Ferrer, Traffic), calls on her cell phone with a job offer. She's happy hap-py to return home to Boston, and moves in with Dad. "I'm staying with Dad and sleeping at the morgue," Hennessy Hen-nessy says of the character while on a break. "There are a few scenes where I am waking up on the couch and going to the locker room at the morgue to do the daily dai-ly toiletry thing. It's pretty appetizing." appe-tizing." Still, Hennessy enjoys playing a wild character. "It's a very freeing feeling," she says. "It sort of fulfilled ful-filled any fantasy I have to get attention at-tention and be able to express my anger." Anger aside, Jordan is extremely extreme-ly smart and sees .the nefarious i ni iii ,y 1 1 iiiyi.iiiiiiiniiM I .! vfi I : A VI 4., 1 ill : njfci-. Jill Hennessy connections that others don't In the pilot, she realizes that a murder mur-der everyone else accepts as a typical street crime is far more, with connections to the higher echelons of govemmenL As part of the research for her role, Hennessy spoke with a few medical examiners, and toured the Los Angeles coroner's offices. She says coroners are "the most unacknowledged civil service workers in society. Nobody knows it. Nobody sends us food on Thanksgiving. We are not regarded re-garded in the same way as firefighters fire-fighters and cops." When her use of "us" and "we" rather than "them" and "they" is brought to her attention, Hennessy Hen-nessy says, "I was trying to speak for them. 1 was so impressed." Besides Macy, her fellow TV coroners are Dr. Trey Sanders (newcomer Mahershalalhashbaz Ali), who does not suffer from insecurities, in-securities, and forensic entomologist entomolo-gist Dr. Mahesh "Bug" Vija-yaraghavensatyanaryanamurthy Vija-yaraghavensatyanaryanamurthy (Ravi Kapoor, Gideon's Crossing)- "I love that there aren't any gender gen-der or racial issues on the show," Hennessy says. "I love that nobody no-body is the same background or color, and it's not a big deal." iiilhinliiiiliillilMiiiKillilili It is delightful that the men's ethnic backgrounds are simply part of the show without grandstanding. grand-standing. Just as it is wonderful that Jordan is a female unafraid of expressing her anger. "I've got to meet this chick," Hennessy says. " I want to go on a sleepover with her." 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