From The ElectronicTelegraph(UK)
Anorexic models will be banished from the pages of women's magazines under a voluntary code agreed by editors yesterday. Details of the scheme have yet to be finalised, but it would include "monitoring images" and "using models who varied in shape and size". A self-regulatory body made up of editors, stylists, photographers and women who would check the contents of fashion pages, is also likely to be created.

From CBS.com
During an interview on The Late Show with David Letterman Thursday night, Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart spoke out about her much speculated weight problem. She said she doesn’t pay attention to all the gossip that she’s anorexic. Flockhart was very direct about how she feels about all the media attention. "I would like to take this opportunity just to tell the press to kiss my skinny white ass," Flockhart said. The actress was in New York, starring in the off-Broadway play bash.

From Mr. Showbiz
Early September 1997: Viewers get their first taste of Ally McBeal, a single white female Boston attorney with a penchant for neurotic fantasies and micro-miniskirts. The show's a surprise hit, outperforming its lead-in, the sixth season premiere of Melrose Place. It also ranks a close second in the Nielsen ratings to Monday Night Football, proving that the first night of the working week needed a fresh jolt of estrogen. Soon the show's a cultural phenomenon and its star, Calista Flockhart, is an overnight sensation.

From New York Post Online
Calista's Deli Buying Spree Provides Food For Thought. The Post spotted the "Ally McBeal" star in a Midtown deli this weekend, cruising the aisles and carefully checking out nutrition labels. Flockhart, who's been battling rumors of anorexia, walked out loaded down with three bags full of soy milk, bread, eggs, water, bananas and other healthy items.

From George Magazine
Big-Breasted Women Are Immune to Scandal. Right, Ms. Lee?... Be honest. When you think of blackmail, you think of George Raft and late-night Cinemax movies, but sunny ol' People magazine never enters your mind, right? Well, folks, that'll all change when you flip through the Calista Flockhart interview in the May George. When the conversation turns to--surprise!--her weight, Flocky starts in on People, of all things.

From E! Online
So much for the theory that Ally McBeal is wasting away. According to reports, Fox is considering giving viewers two weekly helpings of the reality-challenged lawyer series. Under the plan (reputedly dreamed up by Ally creator David E. Kelley), a half-hour version of the hit show would air Tuesdays--one night after the regular, old hour version. The new show would be made up of unused and scrambled footage--sort of Ally McBeal: The Dance Mix. The plan, though cost-effective, wouldn't be entirely sweat-free. Ally stars, led by the weight-watched Calista Flockhart, likely would be asked to pull longer (than usual) work days.

From The Los Angeles Daily News
"They're awfully fickle, those press people," chuckled the star of TV's "Ally McBeal" and a new film adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." She makes a lot of jokes, in fact, some at her own expense and others' about the absurdly intense media scrutiny of her weight. But there are serious things to say about her ordeal. "The exploitation of human beings is astonishing," said the actress, 33. "Yet, you think, why? Is it because we, the public, want it, we want the gossip? I believe we do, but is it also because that's what they're feeding us? What came first? Who knows?" Romance rumors about Flockhart have been flying recently. A New York tabloid reported she was seeing comedian Ben Stiller the same week a British tab linked her with Sam Mendes, director of the recent acclaimed "Cabaret" stage revival. Flockhart wants to keep her love life private and says that both men are friends.

From The Bergen Record
Calista Flockhart remembers the exact moment she regained her sense of humor. She was in the kitchen of her West Los Angeles home reluctantly poring over a batch of tabloids, all of which contained bulletins about her supposed eating disorder, when a certain story caught her eye. "I remember reading in this paper that I had such a messed-up relationship with food that my dog Webster was anorexic," she says. "I just started laughing out loud." It hasn't always been easy for Flockhart to smile lately. "Hearing all these untrue reports about myself certainly hasn't been fun," says the actress, who is best known for her starring role on TV's "Ally McBeal."

From Daily News Online
The first thing that strikes you about Calista Flockhart is that — all expectations to the contrary — she is not a waif. Despite last fall's headlines and photographs that made her out to be as frail as an undernourished grasshopper, the "Ally McBeal" star looks remarkably sturdy. If Flockhart's purported anorexia hadn't been adopted as a cause célèbre, anyone would think she was just another skinny Hollywood actress. Slight, yes. Small-boned, absolutely. But these days hardly gaunt. Stylishly dressed in a black sweater, long coat and pinstriped pants, Flockhart appears not only surprisingly hale, she's disarmingly candid.

From New York Post
Just days after backing out of a planned Today show interview, Calista Flockhart cancelled appearances on David Letterman's Late Show and The Rosie O'Donnell Show. The Ally McBeal star was due to come to New York this week to promote her upcoming movie, A Midsummer Night's Dream. She had been booked for Monday night's Letterman show and yesterday's Rosie O'Donnell.

From Fox News
Actress Calista Flockhart doesn't want to talk about weighty topics, so the Today show doesn't want to talk to her at all. The star of Fox's Ally McBeal backed out of a long-scheduled interview with the NBC morning show when its producers refused a request not to talk about her weight. The ultra-thin actress has denied rumors that she has an eating disorder. Flockhart had been booked on Today for next Monday to promote her new movie. She also has appearances planned for next week on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman and on The Rosie O'Donnell.

From TV Guide
Flockhart, 34, is sitting in a corner of the pastel-appointed restaurant of the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. She arrived minutes earlier wearing a knit cap and huge black sunglasses, her size 0 (yes, zero) frame lurking somewhere inside a baggy pair of cargo pants and a thick turtleneck sweater. As she talks, a young couple seated nearby stare and whisper. Waiters linger. One of them presents Flockhart with a menu; it’s after 2 pm and the kitchen will stop serving lunch soon. She searches for something to eat. Soup? No. Salad? No. She’s not really hungry after eating a late breakfast. Finally, she chooses her lunch: double cappuccino, tall orange juice.

From Yahoo News
Actress Calista Flockhart doesn't want to talk about weighty topics, so the "Today" show doesn't want to talk to her at all. The star of Fox's ``Ally McBeal'' backed out of a long-scheduled interview with the NBC morning show when its producers refused a request not to talk about her weight. The ultra-thin actress has denied rumors that she has an eating disorder.

From NY Daily News Online
Calista Flockhart claims People magazine coerced her into talking about her alleged battle with anorexia. "I was told that I could either cooperate or not, but that it would would behoove me to cooperate," the "Ally McBeal" star tells George magazine. A rep for People insists Flockhart "freely cooperated with us" and "has continued to cooperate with us on other stories."

From People
Calista Flockhart, Ally McBeal herself, might be headed to Off Broadway this summer. The TV star, who hails from the New York stage and who left a production of Chekov's "Three Sisters" at the Roundabout Theater in order to assume the role of McBeal, is said to be hungry to return to her theatrical roots, at least during the summer hiatus of her hit series, reports Variety. An offer is understood to be on the table to have Flockhart star in a revival of John van Druten's "I Am a Camera," the original adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories" which later became the basis for the musical "Cabaret." Flockhart would begin rehearsals in early May for three weeks and then do a five-week run.

From InStyle
Returning stares is in sync with Flockhart's give-no-ground attitude, which was on display after media types complained about her teeny-weeny skirts on the show. "It just made me wear them shorter," she says. "That's so in my nature. If somebody tells me not to do something, I'll do it faster, louder and bigger than ever." This doesn't mean handling the "is she or isn't she?" anorexia questions was a walk in the park. "It was hard," Flockhart admits. "People were staring and watching what I was putting in my mouth. If I was on an airplane and I wasn't particularly hungry, the reaction was like, 'Uhhh' - you know, 'Quick, make a phone call'... It was a virulent, vicious, relentless pursuit."

From Variety
Michael Bolton and Jon Secada will headline the March 6  grand gala ``Rays of Hope'' opening of Loews Miami Beach Hotel,  to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and  Miami's Children's Hospital Foundation. Loews' Jonathan Tisch  has had a longtime relationship with the Glaser group and  cochairs the event along with Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Pat and  Chris Riley and Paul Michael Glaser, who is chairman of the  board. Larry King m.c.'s the night. The hotel is on the site of  the now-restored art deco Saint Moritz (100 rooms) and adjoining  property (now a 700-room tower). Among those checking out South  Beach's latest addition over the weekend were Fox-ites in for  the Super Bowl. They included Calista Flockhart, Dylan  McDermott, Rob Estes, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Peter Horton.  

From JAM!
Calista Flockhart has repeatedly said what she isn't. She will concede, however, that she has panic attacks. "I'm riddled with insecurities about the future," the 34-year-old Ally McBeal star said in Sunday's Parade magazine. "In the back of my mind, I think: 'If the show's cancelled, I'll go back to the theatre.'" Flockhart, who won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the flighty young lawyer Ally in Ally McBeal, first achieved success on Broadway, getting raves for playing Laura in The Glass Menagerie in 1994. "On stage, I feel at home, comfortable, accepted, whole. It's like a drug for me," she said, laughing. "It doesn't sound too healthy, does it?" The rail-thin actor has denied persistent rumors that she is anorexic.

From The Sunday Telegraph, London
William Shakespeare is currently the undisputed favourite screenwriter in Beverly Hills. With the plaudits for Shakespeare in Love still echoing, several more films based on his plays are being released this year. Actors have been clamouring for roles, and one of the most star-spangled productions is 20th Century Fox's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Michael Hoffman and set in Tuscany at the turn of the century. Bottom is played by Kevin Kline, who becomes a pawn in the love battles between Oberon (Rupert Everett), King of the Fairies, and Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer), his Queen. The film will also star Calista Flockhart of Ally McBeal fame as Helena.

Emmy party: whole other show
Sandy Grushow of 20th Century Fox threw his post-Emmy bash at Morton's for Ally McBeal, The Practice, NYPD Blue, The X-Files and more. Ally's Calista Flockhart brought visiting parents Ron and Kay Flockhart. "We went to the Getty, tooled around Beverly Hills, did the L.A. thing and went to the dog park (with her terrier mutt, Webster)." The actress reports: "Ally's skirt length will be about the same as last year, although I'm also going to wear long skirts, 'cause I happen to like skirts that go down to my knees." And Flockhart's social life? "Absolutely nothing is happening."(continued)

From E! Online
"He didn't deny it." Stellar Hollywood legal and business reporter on David E. Kelley's recent television comments regarding the red-hot scuttlebutt that Calista Flockhart is anorexic. Fixin's are my mixin's this week, babes, so if you've got a problem with comestibles comin' yer way, then go stuff yerself. Alrighty, then, let's go.

From Ultimate TV
It's been quite a year for Calista Flockhart--taking her, you could say, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Her breakout series, Ally McBeal, got a boost of legitimacy when Flockhart won the 1998 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series in the Comedy/Musical category. Then this summer, Time magazine put Flockhart's Ally's image on their cover, as illustration for an article asking if feminism is dead--provoking a firestorm of debate on the merits of the series. No doubt Flockhart will weather the storm--the quirky Ally McBeal starts up again this fall.

Born in Freeport, Illinois, but raised in New Jersey (where she graduated from high school in 1983) and later from Rutgers College, she established herself in Chicago theater. She took her gal-next-door looks and appeared as the Barnard Girl in 1994's Quiz Show before Naked In New York, The Birdcage, Milk Money and Telling Lies in America. Next up are A Midsummer Night's Dream and Like A Hole in the Head.

Not bad for an actress who got her start vomiting into little jars in an HBO Family Series segment about anorexia and bulimia. Even then, UltimateTV knew she was something special ... then we caught her opposite the brilliant Robin Williams in The Bird Cage, and her career was just in front of her. She's taken her fresh, sweet girl looks, added enough neuroses to suit a hungry-for-a-smart-series audience, covered it in comedy and has become a huge, huge hit.

From the Daily News | News and Views | Daily Dish
Is Calista Flockhart worried about her weight? The Ally McBeal star sure has others worried. Staffers at Entertainment Weekly in New York were so concerned that the waiflike actress seems to be getting even skinnier that they took some action. I'm told Flockhart was asked to wear bulky clothes to de-emphasize her body in her cover spread in this week's issue, rather than risk exposing how painfully thin she is.
How thin is she? At last week's Emmys, one source reported having to "turn away" when Flockhart walked by because the bones in her back were protruding. "It looked scary," said the source. Flockhart these days looks "like a little boy with a girl's head," another source said. An EW spokesman said Flockhart decided what to wear for the shoot, not the magazine.

'Ally' Star Puts Bite on Rumor
Dogged by rumors she has an eating disorder, Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart says she chows down on three square meals a day and wishes critics would stop bugging her about her weight. The 33-year-old actress told People magazine she doesn't even know what anorexia means.
"I guess I don't know the exact definition of anorexia. But I eat. I eat normally. I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I don't have a messed-up relationship with food," Flockhart said. "Am I anorexic? I guess my answer would have to be no."

Who Cares How Skinny Calista Flockhart Is? by Marya Hornbacher
The January 1999 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine has an article about the damage that gossip about Calista Flockhart can have: "Besides, if Flockhart really is anorexic, all our speculation is only feeding her starvation. Part of what drives an eating disorder is a need to believe you're good enough at something; you settle on thinness and try to be the thinnest of them all. When I was at my deathly thinnest, I saw the constant, unfriendly gossip about me as evidence that I was doing "well" at my little project of starving to death. Tabloid talk won't help Flockhart if she has an eating disorder -- gossip will only prove to her that's she's "good" at it.

From Houston Chronicle
Calista Flockhart, besieged by stories that she has an eating disorder, has faced the situation head-on. She's replaced publicist David Pollick with Pat Kingsley. He managed to get a TV shot of her at the World Series opener wearing a Yankees cap and, most importantly, having a snack. He calls her a "healthy, well-adjusted woman" and likens the Ally McBeal star to screen legend Audrey Hepburn. "If they even knew the word anorexia back then," he notes, "I'm sure they would have used it to describe Audrey."