Thank god, it's... the DVD. A new Fletch: The Jane Doe Edition DVD slated for release on May 1 boasts a digitally remastered picture and includes the new featurettes "Just Charge It to the Underhills: Making and Remembering Fletch," "From John Cocktoaston to Harry S. Truman: The Disguises," and a compilation of favorite Fletch moments. (I was only kidding about the sandwiches and ball bearings, though it is all ball bearings these days.) I don't usually single out DVD releases in their own news item, but this is one of the funniest, most quotable films of all time, and exceptions will be made. Now does anyone have a towel? My car just hit a....
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Chevy Chase, who famously lampooned the then-president during Saturday Night Live's early days, remembers Gerald R. Ford, who died Tuesday night, as "a very, very sweet man." Speaking to Reuters, Chase says his bumbling take was born of Ford's status as the United States' first nonelected commander in chief, and Nixon's successor and eventual pardoner. "I never felt that he deserved to be there to begin with," he says. "That was just the way I felt then as a young man and as a writer and a liberal." Years later, Chase says, he and Ford became friends. "He took my wife and I on a whole lovely trip through Grand Rapids to show us where he had been as a child and whatnot. We kept in touch, and he was just a terrific guy."
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Kate and Sawyer get Lost in each other.
As part of its annual "My Big Year" issue, TV Guide recaps the most stellar TV moments of 2006. Did your personal faves make the cut?
Big Moments• Kiefer Sutherland Wins the Emmy: "What a nice evening this has been for us. My father's sitting right over there. We're going to have dinner now." — 24's Kiefer Sutherland accepting the Best Actor in a Drama Emmy on Aug. 27, with proud papa Donald Sutherland looking on.• Heroes' Cheerleader Refuses to Be Spirited Away: The peppy, indestructible cheerleader (endearing Hayden Panettiere) had
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Just as it presented a dramatization of a Britney and K-Fed-esque couple in last week's season premiere, Law & Order's next shamelessly ripped-from-the-tabloid-headlines outing, airing Nov. 3, will guest-star Chevy Chase as a celebrity who, when pulled over for drunk driving, launches into an anti-Semitic rant. Then, veering away from even what Mel Gibson stands accused of, Chase's character's shirt is found to be stained with the blood of the Jewish producer behind his failed sitcom. Can Fletch join in on this investigation?
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Question: Do you have any new scoop on Bill Lawrence's version of Fletch? Is Zach Braff going to play him?
Answer: Sounds like someone took my cue from this week's podcast. Mr. Lawrence informed me that he has an Oct. 1 deadline to turn in his Fletch screenplay to the Weinstein brothers. And if he has anything to say about it, the Braffster will be succeeding Chevy Chase in the title role. "I'm hopin' so, man. There's no guarantee until he takes the deal, but if I had my way, yeah, he would be the star. He'd be a good Fletch."
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