![]() Still, Gold is back and looks well and is getting married next week, although she is the first to concede that she'll always have to be on the watch for a recurrence. "We'll just have to talk to her.") And all of them suffer so much and for so long that the audience simply stops caring. ("She's a very sick girl," intones Clayburgh. Jill Clayburgh and William Devane are the parents, for whom no banality is too much. Gold is a good actress and handles Nancy with a degree of sophistication but not nearly the compassion she gave to the young woman on the Oprah show. But the family in "Nancy" is altogether too wimpish and arrogant at the start and does too much breast-beating later. ![]() Eating disorders are self-perpetuating and easily denied. Nobody will cry very much at "For the Love of Nancy," which airs tomorrow night at 9 on Channel 7.Īnorexia nervosa is an awful disease - of the body, of the mind, of the family - and often as hard to overcome as any drug or alcohol addiction. Tracey cried and Oprah cried and the 27-year-old patient (who looks 127) cried, and if the tears were only partly for real it didn't matter. The real Nancy and the real Tracey Gold, both now recovering, and another young woman who is not were guests this week on an "Oprah Winfrey Show," which was altogether more poignant - if a tad stagy - with Tracey flinging her arms around the anorexic guest and whispering compassionately that a bite of bread can be the first step toward recovery. There is something piquant, of course, in having Gold, now 25, play the role of someone in the throes of the devastating eating disorder that held her in its skeletal grip for so long, but somehow it is not a very good story. ![]() Unfortunately, "For the Love of Nancy," the ABC vehicle for her return, is not really worthy of Gold, her illness or Nancy Walsh, the 18-year-old anorexic she portrays. It's good to see her back half a decade or so later, healthy-looking and probably a whole lot happier than she ever was. When Tracey Gold was (more or less) booted off the popular sitcom "Growing Pains" to "deal with" her anorexia, her tragedy became a TV-worldwide cause for sympathy and support. ![]()
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