99 Words About … NBC’s outside-the-box ‘Smash’
It's the ultimate guys weekend.
Football. Beer. Splashy commercials for more beer.
So let's talk Broadway!
No, really.
"Smash" (10 p.m. Monday, KSNV-TV, Channel 3) is the season's best new network offering yet.
"American Idol's" Katharine McPhee portrays the ingenue looking to headline a Marilyn Monroe musical on the strength of her goosebump-inducing voice.
No cops, no doctors, no lawyers. "Smash" is just a classy musical knockout for grown-ups -- something Bravo might have developed had it never been overrun by "Real Housewives."
Granted, its target audience is small. But for NBC, even a small audience would be an improvement.
-- CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE
