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Posted: 6/22/01
Intimate Portrait: Sela Ward
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 The summer 2001 season of Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait series features some of America's most controversial, beautiful and most of all - talented women. This well rounded week of premiere episodes begins with Calista Flockhart (6/18/2001) and also includes Laila Ali (6/19), Sela ward (6/20), Liz Smith (6/21) and Naomi Campbell (6/22).
With a running time of an hour each, sometimes there is barely enough time to cover these womens' lives and give them the air time they each deserve. Sela ward, alone, could easily have run in five hour long parts and probably would have kept my attention the entire time. But Lifetime's Intimate Portrait series continues to take all this noteworthy material and put it all into one, always very complete and very enjoyable, hour long segment. Sela Ward truly burst into the public eyes when Sisters premiered in 1991 and when she won her first Emmy Award for her role as Teddie, America rejoiced with her. But I never realized before just how much she had to go through to get to that point. She was always beautiful and oddly enough, that fact held her back - I guess I never though it was possible to be too beautiful. as a part of "hell week" at her sorority she was forced to wear a sign that said "I'm beautiful and I know it," something that hurt Sela very deeply. In this episode of Intimate Portrait Sela is able to share her feelings, her triumphs and her life with the world, and she's allowed to do it in her own words, which is another selling point for Intimate Portrait.
She's over forty and defying the odds: with two Emmys, two big hit tv shows and a family of her own under her belt, Sela seems to be on top of the world and why shouldn't she be. You can catch Sela on ABC in the award winning, hit series Once and Again (which can also be found in reruns on Lifetime) and if you miss her weekly, you can catch her daily on virtually any channel in a string of Sprint commercials. Lifetime airs Intimate Portrait episodes every weeknight at 7:00 p.m. Robert Bach is a writer and musician and former entertainment editor for an East Coast publication. Got a problem? Email us at filmmonthly@hotmail.com |
This program airs on Lifetime. Check local listings for showtimes.
So many times we hear about our favorite stars through magazines and tabloids, but Intimate Portrait give us the chance to hear the story "from the horses mouth" so to speak. Sela's story is one of hard times growing up, but also one of hard work and determination paying off with great success.