Faith C. Salie
SAG/AFTRA/AEA
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"When you watch Significant Others you're aware that
you're watching the actors do something that few people can do well,
and you just want to write them a thank-you note."
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-Nancy Franklin, The
New Yorker
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"Significant
Others [starring Faith Salie] is a sitcom rarity: fresh,
familiar, and milk-through-the-nose funny."
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-Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times
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"This delicious new sitcom [Significant Others--starring Faith
Salie] features three couples in marriage counseling simply talking
about, and living through, the irritations of cohabitation. They
include impending
parenthood, adultery and actually having to grow up. Others is
mostly
ad-libbed, with the loose, natural humor of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
There are no punch lines, just moments of truth. Others is real
life,
only funnier and with better-looking people. In other words, heaven. My
Score: 9"
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-Susan Stewart, TV Guide
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"Significant
Others [starring Faith Salie] is flat-out funny."
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-Brian Lowry, Daily
Variety
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"Significant
Others, with its gifted cast [including Faith Salie] and
clever editing, bursts onto the TV scene like a nighttime comet,
lighting up the screen with some of the most genuinely funny moments of
the season."
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-Barry Garron, The
Hollywood Reporter
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"As another of television's adventures in
cable
[Significant Others] has an undeniable freshness. You have the
young
couple (Herschel Bleefeld and Faith Salie) dealing with his
slacker
tendencies and her unplanned pregnancy, to terrific effect.
Significant
Others has a tone more in keeping with good British TV--dry,
character-based humor, presented without laugh track or even specific
punchlines--than anything
American. Even if it seems too subtle for wide appeal, it would be nice
for
Bravo's big-brother network, NBC, to give it a summertime run, just to
see
what would happen."
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-Steve Johnson, Chicago
Tribune
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"It's refreshing to see a comedy that relies less on outlandish
circumstances than dialogue. The speed and grace with which they
deliver verbal blows is reminiscent of the good days of Will &
Grace (you know, the first ones) and the fast editing and shifting
frames keeps the banter going and the laughs rolling. The retorts are
so well-timed, the toss-backs so witty, it would only be gracious to
credit the writers. But that's just it--there aren't
any. The six-episode series is entirely unscripted, leaving the
dialogue
to the whim of improvisational actors. But if you didn't know that--and
honestly, I didn't the first time I sat down to watch--it wouldn't
matter. The conversation flows like it's been rehearsed for weeks and
the secondary players jump
in with equal wit."
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-Carie Windham, Technician
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"Significant
Others is an amazing accomplishment for the actors and a treat to
watch
for the audience. So instead of watching the fools at ABC reading
scripts
telling them what to say about their daughter-in-law's gay parents on It's
All Relative, tune in to Bravo for a look at real acting."
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-Zachary
Campillo, The
Daily Illini
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Good television shows fly under the radar
all
the time. Take Significant Others. Bravo's improvised comedy
about
four couples in and out of marriage counseling is the funniest comedy
you've
never heard of. A delightful cross between Curb Your Enthusiasm
and
a Woody Allen movie on speed, Significant Others premiered last
March
to stellar reviews but practically no buzz--or viewers. In a sea of
cookie-cutter
comedies, Significant Others, which features a talented
ensemble of
improvisational actors and comedians, stands out.
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-Kevin D. Thompson, Palm
Beach Post
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"Sophisticated
screwball entertainment. No laugh track, yippee! Just sharp, snarky wit
and
good laughs."
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-Mike Duffy, Detroit
Free Press
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"The unscripted aspect of [Significant Others] is hardly
noticed
as the ensemble of talented actors act out the scenes flawlessly. The
fact
that they come up with their own dialogue just makes it that much more
real.
Cable appears to be the only place to allow innovative comedies thrive,
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-Shawn McKenzie, Entertain
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"This evening is very much about the acting, and the sum of all
these performances equals a hoot and a half. Faith Salie is a
straight woman who can rattle off a scathing quip or two."
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-F. Kathleen Foley, LA Times Calendar
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"Equally excellent were Faith Coley Salie, Chad Borden,
and Ed F. Martin. I haven't felt this viscerally proud of local theatre
since 1998. Such evenings, and the theatres that produce them, are rare
and precious in this town."
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-Polly Warfield, Back Stage West
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"Perky Faith
Salie sparkles in a variety of characterizations."
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-Les Spindle, Back Stage West
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"Faith
Coley Salie stands out particularly."
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-T.H. McCulloh, Back Stage West
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"Faith
Salie is the evening's winsome ingenue."
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-Neal Weaver, LA Weekly
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"Faith
Salie's delicate presence gives credibility to the gentle,
soft-spoken Killaine."
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-Mary Mallory, LA Times
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"Chrysalis
certainly confirmed for me that Faith C. Salie is one to watch.
It was the glow in [her character] Sarina's eyes that made the
difference in the quick musical improvisation. Salie has a strikingly
good singing voice and contributed to one of the most heartwarming
scenes I've seen on Star Trek in a long time."
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-Timothy W. Lynch, PsiPhi.org
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