He judged Hall as "miscast and far too inexperienced" to take the role immortalised by Anne Bancroft in the original Sixties film.

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Competing against them are Bebe Neuwirth for her role as Dorothy Parker in "Dash and Lilly, " Anne Bancroft for the CBS movie "Deep In My Heart, " Cicely Tyson for "A Lesson Before Dying, " and Dianne Wiest for "The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn" (CBS).

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