So we were talking on Twitter about Jill Hennessy. Or rather, I was talking about Jill Hennessy. @Run2Eat was talking about the show “Judging Amy” (which I almost called “Chasing Amy” just then, but that was a completely different oeuvre all together. [it was a movie]) and I was all like “hey, that actress from Law & Order was in that show,” but she was not in that show, she was in another show called “Crossing Jordan,” but the funny thing is that the lead actress in “Judging Amy,”Amy Brenneman (I wonder if it is weird to share the same name as your character. I mean, if you’re a serious actor and you’re in character and someone asks you if you want a coke, do you know whether they are talking to you the person or you the character? and did your character grow up in the American south, where all soft drinks are know as cokes? even Pepsi? or did you grow up in the south and they are asking you, while you are between scenes, if you want to take the pause which refreshes? or are they from the south and not thinking of you at all? or maybe they are from 1983 and are offering you cocaine?) looks a lot like Jill Hennessy but not so much like Jill Hennessy that she could pass herself off as Jill Hennessy’s twin sister. Jill Hennessy actually has a twin sister.
BREAKING: There is a third! Angie Harmon who was on Law & Order and is now on Rizzoli & Isles. I know nothing about this show, Rizzoli and Isles, except that they use the ampersand just like Law & Order does. Or did. Law & Order, the original “Process Drama” has ended its run. In addition to being a great asset to two fine process dramas (based, at least, on their mutual use of the ampersand) Angie Harmon is an ambassador for prostate cancer.
Jill Hennessy plays a doctor in “Crossing Jordan” which, I presume, is another process drama. “Judging Amy” probably is too, although “Amy” (aka Amy) is likely a judge and not a doctor. “Jordan” (aka Jill) is, in fact, the medical examiner, which makes her much like “Quincy” except that I don’t think someone who looks as much like Jack Klugman as Angie Harmon looks like Jill Hennessy and Amy Brenneman would make nearly as appealing an ambassador for prostate cancer.
I also think think that it is inappropriate for “Jordan,” in her role as M.E., to be showing midriff in the morgue with a body in a bag on the gurney as it appears she is doing in the picture above. People who desire for their autopsist to be “hot” need their noggin examined. Even if she is not showing midriff (it’s hard to tell given the resolution of the image), she does have her thumbs thrust into her waistband, a stance one usually expects to find in any given issue of FHM or at least annually in Sports Illustrated. I know that the “real” Jill Hennessy would never disrespect a stiff in this way. It must be her twin in the picture.