<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her anxiety . She always had these long speeches about her fears and her future and love . It was a great tool for me personally because I got to get it all out . I was able to psychoanalyze all of it everyday (sic?) with her and then I wouldn't have to do it on my own . So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on television . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her anxiety . She always had these long speeches about her fears and her future and love . It was a great tool for me personally because I got to get it all out . I was able to psychoanalyze all of it everyday (sic?) with her and then I wouldn't have to do it on my own . So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on television . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> "Joey Potter is a headstrong, vibrant, wily, sultry, and determined go - getter . And yet, in a gloriously contradictory manner, in spite of her tough - as - nails exterior demeanor, Joey's also a frail, sometimes uncertain, emotionally sensitive, in - need - of - love person", said the show's official book . Joey, named for Jo in Little Women, for years had been climbing in Dawson's bedroom window and platonically sharing his bed . Joey's mother had died from cancer when Joey was thirteen and her father, Mike (Gareth Williams), was in prison for "conspiracy to traffic in marijuana in excess of 10,000 pounds ." Her harried, unmarried, and very pregnant sister, Bessie (Nina Repeta), about ten years older than Joey, was raising her while running the Ice House restaurant, where Joey worked as a waitress . GQ described Joey as "kind of an uptight fussbudget--one who's always twisted up over doing the right thing and bungling - up ways to hook up with her crush and across the creek neighbor, Dawson ." </P> <P> The 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall brunette enchanted the press, writers of both sexes commenting how Holmes was the sort of girl one wants to bring home to meet the parents and to marry . "The Audrey Hepburn of her generation", was one typical comment . Time called her "impossibly lovely" and Entertainment Weekly said she was "next up for idolhood ." Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction ." Holmes made such an impression in Hollywood, The New York Times Magazine claimed everyone was seeking to cast a "Katie Holmes type", who, the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to the 1950s: she is a smart girl next door (as opposed to the babe - o-rama blondes)"--the sort represented by her Dawson's Creek co-star Michelle Williams . But her "type" was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on television . Anywhere ." </P>

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