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Shirley Jones to Kick the Bottle as Guest on The Cleaner
by Troy Rogers
With
the second season of The Cleaner now in full rehabilitation
on A&E, Benjamin Bratt has been working with a
slew of well known guest stars who have dropped
by to lend their support to William Banks. After
welcoming Whoopi Goldberg, Gary Cole and Joe Don
Baker to the set of The Cleaner in the first couple
of weeks, former Partridge Family mom, Shirley
Jones pays a visit to The Cleaner on July 14 in
the role of an alcoholic nightclub singer who
needs help kicking the bottle.
As a double dose of guest star goodness, The Cleaner also welcomes former Barney Miller cast member Steve Landesberg and The L Word's Mia Kurshner in the same episode.
Get yourself clean with all of the official A&E details below:
Academy Award®-winning actress Shirley Jones
guest stars as an alcoholic mother and infamous
nightclub singer in the A&E original drama "The
Cleaner." The one-hour episode, "Does Everybody
Have a Drink?," premieres on Tuesday, July 14th
at 10PM ET/PT and also guest stars Mia Kirshner
("The L Word"), Kate del Castillo (Julia), Steve
Landesberg ("Head Case") and Noah Bean ("Damages").
Lola
and Bernie Zellman (Shirley Jones and Steve
Landesberg) are Los Angeles' longest-running
nightclub act, but also out-of-control alcoholics.
Their son Jonathan (Noah Bean), a Hollywood
talent manager who steers clear of alcohol,
oversees the career of a famous drug-addicted
musician April May (Mia Kirshner). Jonathan
hires William (Benjamin Bratt) and his team
(Grace Park and Esteban Powell) to help his
client kick her habit before a big concert tour,
but is forced to look closer to home when his
fiancé Josefina (Kate del Castillo) loses her
patience with his parents. Meanwhile, William
confronts his own battles when Melissa (Amy
Price-Francis) serves him with divorce papers.
Inspired by the true story of real life "extreme
interventionist" Warren Boyd, who also co-executive
produces the series, "The Cleaner" stars Bratt
as William Banks, a recovering addict who must
balance his unwavering dedication to helping
others get clean with an increasingly rocky
personal life and the ghosts of his addictions.
Banks and his teammates Akani Cuesta (Grace
Park) and Arnie Swenton (Esteban Powell) employ
an unconventional - and often by any means necessary
- approach to getting addicts and those who
surround them to realize they've reached rock-bottom
and help them begin the process of recovery.
With every success and failure, William wrestles
with his commitment to his work and his love
for his wife Melissa (Amy Price-Francis) and
their children through an unusual relationship
with God.
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