SHORT TAKES : Sister Directing Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad, supermom Claire Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” steps out of that role and takes a cue from sister Debbie Allen in the Walt Disney TV movie remake of “Pollyanna.”
“There are no disadvantages to working with my sister,” Rashad said of working in the NBC-TV movie “Polly” airing this Sunday. Miss Allen of “Fame” claim directed “Polly.”
“She knows me so well, she knows how far she can stretch me. She knows that I can go far beyond where some people think I can go,” Rashad said. “She doesn’t look at me as the actress who plays Claire Huxtable. That’s not her point of origin for me.”
Rashad plays the disciplinarian aunt in the musical recreation of the 1960 classic. “Cosby” co-star Keshia Knight Pulliam stars as the unflappable orphan sent to live with her aunt in a turn-of-the-century Alabama town.
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