Article: FALL TV PREVIEW O'Hara, Lansbury lend charm to CBS; TV TALK "It was a very surreal part of my life . . . The whole thing about being known as a corpse was a little odd." Sheryl Lee, who played the deceased Laura Palmer on "Twin Peaks" and will appear as a living, breathing physician on CBS' new "L.A. Doctors"

Decades past their Ally McBeal years and emitting enough starry shimmer to light Hollywood Boulevard, Maureen O'Hara and Angela Lansbury charmed critics at CBS' Thursday meeting with TV critics here.

O'Hara, introduced by a network publicist as "the woman who was named . . . 1940's `Star Most Likely to Succeed,' " will star in "Cab to Canada," a Thanksgiving special based on the true story of a Pasadena woman who embarked on a 3,000-mile taxicab-and-ferry journey to Vancouver.

Although she starred in "The Christmas Box" for CBS two years ago, the Irish-born actress said she continues to turn down movie scripts because she doesn't care for the small roles she's invariably offered.

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