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Show ET READY, NFL fans. Super Bowl Sunday’s pregame show on Jan. 30 is going to run even longerthan usual. SABRINA == LLDYD As itis, it seems to me, the pre- game show starts aboutTuesday. Born Nov. 20, 1970,in And this year ABCis including Fairtax, Va. a special three-minute segment of its Emmy-winning drama Sports Night, worked up for the occasion by the show’screator, Aaron Sorkin. The idea, of Sports Night, 1998-. Include Chain of Desire, 1992; Father Hood, 1993; That Night, 1992; On Edge, 2000. course, is to hook a vast audienceof football fanatics who havenot yet sampled the series in its usual Tuesday timeslot. Sabrina Lloyd,a regular on Sports Night(she plays the young producer Natalie Hurley), told me “it’s very exciting”to think about being seen on Super Bowl Sunday, but she pointed out that the show is doing pretty well in its second seasonall onits own. “We'ré actually doing better this year because ofa different lead-in, Dharma & Greg,” said Sabrina. “Last year we followed Spin City. And Ilike the way my character is developing. Aaron has given me someoneto play who's complexandinteresting.” Sorkin—who wrote A FewGood Men,a hugehit for Tom Cruise, and is considered a young genius by the Sports Night cast— had to exercise some ingenuity last year when Robert Guillaume, whoplays the executive producer on the show, went down with a stroke. He’s back now, with his real-life illness written seamlessly into the story line. PHOTO BY EDDIE ADAMS; STYLIST, DENISE T. SOLIS; SWEATER, MATILDE; PANTS, BETH BOWLEY; MAKEUP, MALANIEROMERO;HAIR, VICKIEMYNES Virginia but raised in the ‘small Florida town of Mount Dora, later mo) Sobrina’s big break was a guest be Sabrina Lloyd plays Natalie tin on TV’s Law & Or- the der. “I played the girlfriend ofa murdered boyin a reality-based Young People's episode,”she said.“It got me a Theater. After Teally good agent in New York.” making the It also led to a role in the 1993 Hoe vie Father Patrick Swayze film Father Hood.“1 played a tomboy—his Hurley on the ABE little girl,”said Sabrina. “It was series Sporis Might. And is she into sports? “Only during the says Sabrina. oneofthe best times I ever had in work.”(She played a teen but wasin her 20s andstill looks younger than her 29 years.) Until then, she’d endured the usual struggling-young-actress oryof a high travails and waitressing, which id Sabrina. “4n tact, | still get positive feedback from young people whotell me it gave them the is what happens when you graduate from high schoolin Florida and twodays later are in New York looking for a theater job. ‘These daysthe jobs are lonking for Sabrina. Shejust finished a feature film called On Edge, starring Jason Alexander as a Zambonidriver. In this mock documentary, Sabrina plays an accidentproneice skater. Trouble is, growing upin Florida, she wasn’t muchof an ice skater. “Thad to learn to skate,” Sabrina said, “and skate well. Because, to do Schoolgirl whotook hei girlfriend to the senior prom. Any screams of outrage over that one? “No negatives atall,” ted, “1 don't have a hugeinterest in sports. Only during the s t something badly on purpose, you have to en know how to doit right.” i runs PAGE 18 - JANUARY16, 2000 « |
