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The Starter Wife premieres with a special two-hour episode Thursday, May 31 at 9/8C on USA Network
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Show Overview
Character Descriptions
Molly Kagan (Debra Messing): At first blush, the smart, beautiful, savvy and wryly funny Molly, 41, may appear to be leading the charmed life as a prototypical Hollywood “Wife Of” and mother of the adorable four-year-old Jaden, but her life is about to become anything but typical. When her husband and the President of Production of Durango Pictures, Kenny, announces that he is divorcing Molly, he manages to instantly render her a “Starter Wife” and social pariah with a single phone call. Once she realizes that she has been given a do-over, the question for her becomes: what to do now?
Kenny Kagan (Peter Jacobson): Kenny, Molly’s soon-to-be ex-husband, is a man on a mission. He’s currently President of Production of Durango Pictures but has even greater ambitions to take his boss’s spot and will do anything—including dumping his smart, beautiful wife via phone and dating a pop tartlet half his age—to succeed. What he doesn’t realize is that it was Molly’s success at being the consummate Wife Of that helped him get to the top. Now that he is left to his own devices, the game is about to change.
Joan McAllister (Judy Davis): Molly’s oldest, wisest and perhaps snarkiest friend, Joan, is the Wife Of a much older man, whom she fondly refers to as "Pappy.” Joan’s other affections are torn between her love for martinis, cigarettes and spending her husband’s money. After Molly is dumped by her husband, Joan comes to the rescue by offering up her Malibu Colony home while she spends the summer in France—or at least, that’s where she has told her friends she is going.
Lou Manahan (Joe Mantegna): The formidable, powerful Lou Manahan, 50-something, runs Durango Pictures, is “Boss Of” Kenny and has a soft spot for Molly. After he hears about Kenny and Molly’s split, Lou, shirking Hollywood social protocol—because he can—befriends Molly and the two develop a relationship that becomes mutually beneficial in the most unexpected ways.
Lavender (Anika Noni Rose): This 20-something, no-nonsense woman is the security guard who everyone reckons with to get past the Malibu Colony gate. When she’s not refereeing parking disputes and keeping out the riff-raff, she attends UCLA and cares for her feisty grandmother. Buried underneath towering student loans and being on the brink of eviction from her apartment because of her grandmother's dog, she is at her wit’s end but is surprised to find a sympathetic ear from Malibu’s newest resident: Molly.
Sam (Stephen Moyer): Sam, Malibu’s mysterious handsome stranger, is the quintessential loner. He has always kept to himself, opting to ride his bike around the neighborhood or play Frisbee on the beach alone with his dog at sunrise over any of the typical Malibu activities. But when Molly Kagan moves in, he finds himself breaking his own rules, quickly unraveling the quiet life he has worked so hard to create.
Cricket Stewart (Miranda Otto): Cricket, one of Molly’s best friends, is also the Beautiful Wife Of Big Director, Jorge Stewart, and possesses both the managerial skills of Martha Stewart and the adopted brood of Mia Farrow. When Kenny dumps Molly, Jorge, who is trying to sell his new movie to Durango, asks Cricket to remain loyal to her Wife Of duties—even if that means sacrificing her friendship with one of her closest friends.
Jorge Stewart (Aden Young): Cricket's husband, a big-time director, is also friends with Kenny, Molly’s ex. Eager to sell his new movie idea to Kenny, he is not about to have his wife side with Molly after she gets demoted to Starter Wife. Despite Cricket’s reluctant compliance with his wishes, Jorge soon learns that the balance of power can shift in—and just as easily out—of his favor at any moment.
Rodney (Chris Diamantopoulos): Rodney is Molly’s dashing, loyal friend and gay interior decorator extraordinaire. Rodney remains steadfast by Molly’s side during her ugly divorce, is the only one who’s there for her while she suffers her otherwise thorough social ostracizing and always has something wise, comforting or at the very least distracting to say when she needs it most. Now, if he could only figure out how to solve his own problems…
About the Author Gigi Levangie Grazer
USA’s six-hour television event, “The Starter Wife,” is inspired by the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name written by Gigi Levangie Grazer. Grazer has been one of chick lit’s biggest and brightest stars but with “The Starter Wife” she has also conquered mom lit, fiction’s hottest new category. She is the writer who dared to—and succeeded in—nailing Hollywood through her three brilliantly satirical and wickedly funny fictional send-ups. No other novelist has captured the cut-throat yet often sublimely ridiculous world of Hollywood and its caricature-like denizens as Grazer. In all of her novels, she outs this insular society’s undying addiction to attention-seeking and how far they’ll go to uphold their status conscious-based values and superficial social mores. Grazer also has an uncanny talent for creating larger-than-life female characters who embody all of the messy contradictions that are inherent to a town whose main commercial product is celluloid fantasy, while still making her heroines relatable enough for her readers to root for them in the end.
Gigi Levangie Grazer is the author of “The Starter Wife” and also producer of “The Starter Wife” on USA Network. Grazer was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she lived for the majority of her life on the Eastside of Hollywood in an area littered with donut shops, gas stations and graffiti. She later attended U.C.L.A. where she majored in Political Science, with the intention of applying to law school. At the same time, Grazer was working for legendary TV guru, Fred Silverman, who offered her a title and raise to dissuade her from pursuing a higher education. The offer worked. Grazer worked for Fred Silverman for eight years, developing and writing television shows. In the meantime, she married an alluring Indian, Italian, African-American blues musician, though they separated after three years. After her divorce, Grazer wrote a spec feature script that was subsequently optioned.
Grazer went on to write the movie “Stepmom,” starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Up next, Grazer is set to write the romantic comedy “Prodigal Son” for Universal and Imagine Entertainment.
Her first novel, Rescue Me, was published by Simon & Schuster in June 2000 and optioned by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Her next novel, Maneater, was published by Simon & Schuster in June 2003 and optioned by Mandalay Pictures. The Starter Wife was published in June 2005 and recently, Grazer completed her fourth book, “The Billionairess,” which is set to hit bookshelves in July of this year.
Grazer met her future husband, Brian Grazer, Imagine Entertainment co-owner and Academy® Award-winning producer, by accident at Orlando-Orsini on Pico at a lunch with a Playboy executive. They had their first date a few days later and have been together ever since. Grazer is a proud stepmom to two teenagers and a proud mother of two young boys.
Commercial women’s fiction has always been one of publishing’s most popular genres with readers, but when Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding was published in 1996, it almost single-handedly defined a new sub-category of fiction targeted to young women that soon became known as chick lit. Typically, chick lit books feature single 20-to-30-something city-dwelling professionals who are struggling to figure out their careers and love lives—not necessarily in that order. The usually sassy, clever and plucky heroines have the requisite quirky sidekicks, an arch nemesis in the form of a boss or an ex’s ex and often two love interests: the good guy she should want and the bad boy she does want (and probably already has).
Soon writers were plumbing all aspects of the young urban woman’s life: sex and relationships with Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City, career and the fashion magazine business with Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada and family ties with Jennifer Weiner’s In Her Shoes. It was in this genre that Gigi Levangie Grazer found her opportunity: as a true Hollywood Insider, Grazer was able to corner the market on chick lit—Hollywood Style, with her first two novels, Rescue Me and Maneater.
The meteoric rise in popularity of chick lit has recently spurred the creation of a sub-genre called mom lit. Mom lit often features the same kind of spirited young woman who would’ve been—or even literally was in an earlier sequel—a chick lit heroine to see what happens after she gets the guy…and the house, and the career and most importantly, the baby.
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