November 7, 1992<\/p>\n
TELEVISION<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n New “Sisters” hunk: The four siblings in “Sisters,” the NBC series airing Saturday nights at 10 on KING, certainly have their troubles with men.<\/p>\n The exception may be Georgie, who seems to have a pretty solid marriage. However, Frankie married her sister’s ex-husband, and their relationship is alternately passionate and stormy. Alex found her ideal doctor-husband cheating, divorced him, but later took him back. Even the mother of this quartet has remarried.<\/p>\n That left only the beautiful, impetuous Teddy without a man in her life. That is, until recently.<\/p>\n The producers of “Sisters” searched high and low to fill the role of Simon Bolt, a self-made multimillionaire\/entrepreneur with smoldering good looks.<\/p>\n They found him in British actor Mark Frankel, who burst upon the scene, offering Teddy the chance of a lifetime by bankrolling her dress-designing business. It started as all business, but sexual tension erupted every time Teddy (Sela Ward) and Simon shared the screen.<\/p>\n Since these vibrations translated into bigger ratings, it looks as if Simon Bolt will be around awhile.<\/p>\n “I’ve signed for a minimum of 12 episodes in the series,” Frankel said, “but it could go beyond that, if the character really catches on.”<\/p>\n “I love working with Sela. She has a wonderful spontaneity. It’s also a great deal of fun to play a man who seems to have everything but doesn’t let down his guard for very long. Bolt is complex and unpredictable, and I enjoy that aspect of the character.”<\/p>\n Frankel has had an abundance of good luck in his career, which he readily admits.<\/p>\n It would seem that Mark, who was born in London, was destined to toil in the fine arts. His grandfather was a concert violinist and his grandmother played the piano. After high school, he won a coveted three-year scholarship to London’s Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. He got a job in the theater before graduating, and he was a scant three weeks out of school when he won the leading role in the multimillion-dollar TNT miniseries “Michelangelo: A Season of Giants.”<\/p>\n “It all happened so fast,” Frankel said, “I really didn’t have time to dwell on the full impact. I had no time to give in to doubts and fears. I had to plunge right in and do the best I could.”<\/p>\n “It’s ironic, but weeks before I was cast, I went to the Victoria-Albert Museum, turned a corner, and there in front of me was the fantastic ‘David’ by Michelangelo. It was so impressive, it took your breath away. Little did I dream then, that in a matter of weeks, I would be on the set in Italy, playing Michelangelo chiseling on the ‘David’.”<\/p>\n Mark followed “A Season of Giants” with another TNT miniseries, “Young Catherine,” playing the dashing Count Orlov with Vanessa Redgrave and Maximillian Schell. The busy young actor also made a movie, “Leon, the Pig Farmer,” which won awards at various film festivals and is slated to open in February.<\/p>\n Frankel’s stint on “Sisters” should find him a whole new audience and bring him to the attention of Hollywood producers and directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/1858"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}