It was always an enormous shame they never brought Isabella Rossellini back on the show after they fell into their groove, in no small part because it’s enormously difficult to find someone who can really go head-to-head with Alec Baldwin. He had plenty of worthy scene partners throughout the series run, but it takes the inhumanly beautiful product of two film legends to really bring out the best in him.
Did you know, when you were young, that someday you would live in a world where we would be able to hear Isabella Rossellini hiss “Damnit, Johnny, you know I love my Big Beef & Cheddar!” at any time you pleased? The little flounce she delivers on “Oh, damnit!” The way she brings a jewel-encrusted fist up to her mouth, biting her knuckles ferociously! The delicious twist she puts on “ched-dar!” The severe Edna Mode bob!
When I think that Hazel Wassername was on the show for twelve episodes, and Bianca only two, I could spit nails. It wasn’t right. It wasn’t right, and you know it.
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.