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Fresh out of Southern Methodist University, I moved to Anchorage in January 1975 (darn right, it was cold) and lasted until July 1976. For those of us who consider ourselves proud Alaskan alumni, Men in Trees has been a kick. ABC, its network home, recently canceled the series (bad move, it was truly a guilty pleasure) but agreed to let it finish its story arc by showing the last few episodes left in the vault. The first airs tonight at 9 (on Channel 8), when Marin (played by Anne Heche) helps Jack prepare for his first lecture as a college professor. Cynics say the show is silly and shallow (and how does that make it different from most American television?), but what ex-Alaskans love about it is how it captures the state's eccentricity, its zany individuals, who are like no others. We liked Northern Exposure for the same reason (and yes, that was a better series). Photo: Anne Heche, who plays Marin on Men in Trees Those guys at the bar remind me so of Nussbaum and Doogan, Dougherty and Kennedy, Haswell and Jacques Le Pipeline. Not to mention Herbie Nayokpuk, the ivory carver from Shishmaref. Whatever happened to the Shishmaref Cannonball? The Yukon River Fox? Did they freeze on the Iditarod trail? And how can we forget the women? When it comes to feeling the loss of Men in Trees, who could forget the cameo appearance of Lake Highland's own Morgan Fairchild, who showed up a few episodes back to sing the national anthem at the hockey game? Morgan fit right in. For the lovely women of Men in Trees are as babeworthy as the Women of the Orange Door (which, believe it or not, was not a brothel but, rather, our starving-tenants' apartment building, owned by none other than Trammell Crow of Dallas!). |
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