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Sexing the Cherry: she played a conservative congresswoman in The West Wing and is an FBI agent in the upcoming Ocean's Twelve. Now veteran stage actor Cherry Jones is playing a nun--on TV and on the stage--and wait till you find out what's under

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From: Curve
Date: 20041201
Author:Bloch, Julia

When theater luminary Cherry Jones returned to the stage in Boston for the title role in Lysistrata, Aristophanes' bawdy 2,500-year-old comedy, she told reporters that it felt good to be doing something other than serious plays for a change.

"I love hard theater, but it is just so nice for once to get to go to work where the object is to be stupid and funny and dear and innocent--and driven to save Greece," she told reporters.

But everybody loves Jones for her hard-hitting roles: Since she left Cambridge's American Repertory Theatre (where she was a founding member for 11 ...

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