How the first Christmas chapter of 'Office' helped
show the suffering of stores
On the subject of Hollywood and the holidays,
it's usually someone saving Christmas.
But for once, it became Christmas, which
helped shop at the office.
So say Dunder Mifflin alumni Brian Baumgartner
and Angela Kinsey
who spoke to Yahoo Entertainment these days after teasingly meeting as ambassadors
for the Rocketbook paperless notebook emblem.
“We almost got canceled two, 3, four, 10, 12 times
in the beginning,” explains Baumgartner
who played the awkward, boorish chili lover Kevin
Malone on the hit NBC sitcom from 2005 to 2013.
“We had been in pain week after week,” agrees Kinsey, who played Angela
Martin, the very hurt (and Dwight) cat lover.
After a ho-hum first season of just six episodes
in the spring of 2005—largely just Americanized
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