In Hacks, Jean Smart plays aging stand-up legend Deborah Vance, performing nightly on the Las Vegas strip in a rut so deep, she could line it with spangled caftans from her own home shopping line. In the HBO show’s first season,
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Fresh off her recent Emmy win for the comedy series “Hacks,” Jean Smart is ramping up development at her production company, SmartAngel Entertainment. Smart and her producing partner, Angeliki Giannakopoulos, have acquired the rights to the real-life stories of two individuals who challenged the status
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I’m David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University, sitting in for Terry Gross. Actress Jean Smart is nominated for two Emmys this year. One is for starring in the comedy series “Hacks,” as a comic whose