The Killing Field

Until "Brothers & Sisters" showed up this fall, I was afraid a generation of viewers would know Sally Field only as that actress trying to execute an unusually bad script in commercials for an osteoporosis medicine. In the commercials, Sally helps her mentally challenged friend -- the one who found taking medicine once a week too difficult -- by telling her to ask her doctor about Boniva, a product you take just once a month. Some of us who like Sally -- I mean REALLY LIKE Sally -- know she's just doing the best she can with an awkward script written by a committee, but I was worried that younger viewers wouldn't realize that. She is her amazing self in Brothers & Sisters, a show I look forward to watching.