Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

Mad About You'' was shot in Hollywood, but several regularly shown Manhattan locations included an apartment building on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street (supposedly the home of Paul and Jamie) and Old Town Bar & Restaurant (45 East 18th St.; open daily for lunch and dinner), a landmark eatery that appeared as a bar on

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.