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Show Fox’s fall darling, Costello, isn’t for everyone’s taste By Suzanne Gill TyData Features Syndicate There's no show Fox is prouder to introduce this than Costello, a sitcom premiering Tuesday, = Sept. 8. Costello features a woman in the leading role - a rarity for Fox. This woman, Sue Costello, is com2/3 a with the network's frequently vulgar comic yet she's, well, she's in touch with her feelings. | 3|3 |22 And she's absolutely 8 about being who she Is. It's an arresting ; Cable} = =| = a3 Costello is a native of Boston's working-class south side.inaword,she's® aroag| S| =| 3 |A5 SerSWSTe ae eeeeee ene and say, hey, | als can take him (in a fight)! if can take him, | can with him, because then | won't be afraid,” she explains Jokingly. “Qn the case off my business manager, agored, ten tobe Ron tra Rola lean hes han Costetio di between fearwhichshe hed as 8 child and young woman,and shyness, which she FI 2 didn't. She also diterentiates between . During a decade of therapy, she says her mantra he been, “Youve not stuphé Sue; you et don’ intow KuTv2 [2 [2 [2 |2 |2 Like the time when she 8 movie trailer was something you could park. By definition, a South KIVX4 4 4 4 a 4 Boston upbringing has some holes in It. “The way | describe my parentsfe, they told us all the time,‘Be better; you ‘ deserve the best. Don’ sette for less!’ And they gave us no To help make up the deficit, Costello went to college and into therapy. At the University of she spent three iene ee Darkness, even though she “didn't understand word,” Once, when she wrote @ college paper her professor suggested she try cooking school insterd. In| therapy, Costello found for her dream of making her mark in life outside the tke Ha Dusngn'’s chararter Gene We aak for tia:And that made me cry because ofthe ain, the “He said in the inmovie, s\n’ pain,of being somebody who 's creative in thi neighborhood."t used to think, ''m just a loser: Because | didn’ know where to with my energy,” Costello Costeko is indeedSoaueiigly Shiahen she's “just talking,” but @ weekly sitcom Is another thing altogether, even though it's based on her life. In the series, Costello plays Southie Sue Murphy, a bartender with dreams of improving herself. The show is not a kiddie comedy, Costello warns.“It's not for 6-year-olds,”she says. "I mean, | feel like my show's about cleaning up the wreckage of the past." 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