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    Jean Smart is holding on to optimism ... crying to Whitney Houston helps

    by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Aug 22, 2022 6 minutes
    Jean Smart attends the Los Angeles Season 2 premiere of HBO Max's "Hacks" at DGA Theater Complex on May 9, 2022, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — Jean Smart just pulled her car over to the side of the road. She needed a moment. Whitney Houston's soaring power ballad "I Have Nothing" is playing on KOST-FM ("love songs on the Cooooast "), a song that ranks as Smart's "all-time singalong if you want to cry," and she had to call and tell me this because a couple of days earlier we had been talking about singing in cars, which she loves to do — always to what's on the radio, because "then the song catches you by surprise and it's more intense."

    The day before, it was Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," a rocker about self-confidence that could easily double as an anthem for Deborah Vance, the legendary stand-up comedian Smart plays on "Hacks." Tomorrow it could be Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want to Be With You" ("Dusty Springfield always makes me very happy and definitely inspires a high-decibel singalong") or maybe

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