Colin Hanks (Orange County, Untraceable) will be joining the cast of Mad Men for three episodes this season, beginning Sunday, Aug. 17. Hanks will play a young priest visiting the church that Peggy's family attends. It is unclear if his episodes will all appear in one story arc, or if they will be spread throughout the remainder of the season. Hanks can also be seen in the upcoming House Bunny opposite Anna Faris. Are you excited to see Hanks go Mad? — Adam Bryant
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At Tuesday's premiere of Untraceable at the Silver Screen Theatre in West Hollywood's Pacific Design Center, Colin Hanks was handling Greek worry beads on the red carpet, an item his character in the thriller could have made use of. "They're just a nice way to fidget," he said by way of explanation. Just back from Sundance, Hanks was all smiles about the reception of The Great Buck Howard, a film he recently completed with his father, Academy Award winner Tom Hanks.Another smile brought on by a combination of family and Oscars was that on Diane Lane's face. "I just kind of smiled very smugly and said, 'I knew it!'" she told reporters of hearing about the Oscar nomination for No Country for Old Men in which her husband, Josh Brolin, stars. Plans for celebrating the nomination are already in the works. "We're going to have a nice dinner," she said. "An elegant, quiet, romantic evening." – Bekah Wright
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Carla Gugino is joining Zack Snyder's Watchmen, playing burlesque dancer turned costumed heroine Sally Jupiter.... Also per the Reporter, Jessica Alba, Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer and Romany Malco (Weeds) have a date with The Love Guru, Mike Myers' first original character since Austin Powers.... Colin Hanks is the male lead opposite Anna Faris in that Playboy bunny-becomes-sorority-house-mom comedy.... Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell are joining Daniel Craig in the WWII movie Defiance.... Per Variety, Andy Garcia, John Cleese and Alfred Molina are in the pink, as in The Pink Panther 2.
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Per Variety, Kevin Kline is in talks to join Tom Hanks and his son, Colin Hanks, in the magician comedy The Great Buck Howard.... Sandra Bullock will headline and coproduce a feature about Peyton Place author Grace Metalious.... Disney has big plans for 2007: The CGI-animated Meet the Robinsons will bow Feb. 9, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 will wash ashore on Memorial Day 2007 (part 2, Dead Man's Chest, hits theaters this July 7), and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian has been assigned a Dec. 14 release.
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NumbersHow is it that I get the sneaking suspicion that I might actually be learning some mathematical skills watching this show? Sure, when Charlie and Marshall (played by Roswell alum Colin Hanks, who picked up the lengthy lingo really quickly) were waging their war of the nerds, half the time I didn't understand what they were saying, but these days I've started using terms like "algorithms" and "convergence." Must be the cool way Charlie breaks his tough things down with simple analogies like tonight's comparison to jigsaw puzzles. Actually I'm not the only one who is picking up some of the geek speak. Agents Sinclair and Granger are also starting to understand Charlie's language and even went to him for help with their quest to find a bullet and ended up using calcula
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