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If you tune into FX’s “Damages” on Wednesday night at 10 pm for its second episode of the season, you’ll see something we saw on the first episode: that the clothes have improved a thousand percent. Now, you don’t really expect lawyers – whether they’re young, like Rose Byrne, or middle aged, like Glenn Close – to be wearing thousand dollar dresses or Dior bow blouses with pencil skirts – or, in the case of Close, three thousand dollar Armani suits. Even if they do take on multi-million dollar cases and class action suits in New York City. But since got such great reviews for its first season, and Glenn Close won an Emmy in September 08 for her role, the production values have increased. Close has much longer hair (extentions? wigs), and the clothes are practically Vogue-worthy. And the ladies spend a lot of time at charity fundraisers, wearing gowns. We knew it was a great show to watch for the plot – but now it’s also a great show to watch for the clothes. The costumer is Frank Fleming, who also costumed the movies “August Rush,” “The Kite Runner,’ “Stranger Than Fiction,” and “Monster’s Ball.” And one of the producer/writers is Daniel Zelman, who happens to be the husband of Debra Messing. We wonder if Debra is helping out at all. – Merle Ginsberg
