CHARMED, WE’RE SURE: Alyssa bewitches Charmed on the WB—now Shannen Doherty–free!
FROM ’80S CUTIE TO ’90S HOTTIE TO…: After playing the girl-next-door on Who’s the Boss? she took a turn as a temptress in Poison Ivy II and a roll in the hay with another girl next door in Deadly Sins. Then she went soap-opera Shakespeare—playing manipulative Jennifer Mancini on Melrose Place.
WHO DOESN’T LOVE THEIR COUSINS? “‘America’s sweetheart’? I’ve grown up with a lot of people—men and women—watching me in their living rooms. I’m more like everybody’s cousin. America’s cousin.”
THIS SOUNDS DISTURBINGLY LIKE OUR TEENAGE EXISTENCE: “I only went to a regular school for a year, and no one talked to me. I didn’t get asked to the prom, which was weird. I guess I didn’t have social skills. It wasn’t easy for me to say‚ ‘Hey, I’m really nice.’”
