Nursing a Habit

I DVR and regularly watch both Pinkett-Smith's Hawthorne and
Nurse Jackie with former Soprano Edie Falco, and Nurse Jackie
is clearly the superior of the two nurse shows. Which is not to say
Hawthorne is bad, "Nurse Jackie" is just better. Anna Deavere
Smith, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated American actress,
playwright, and professor, plays Gloria Akalitis, a wobbly, over-
officious, fleshy and clearly menopausal hospital administrator on
Nurse Jackie and her performance teeters on the precipice of
caricature. For me, it is a fascinating tight-rope act.