Alanis Morissette will bring her alt-rock sensibility to Showtime's Weeds this season, playing Dr. Audra Kitson, a "no-nonsense obstetrician" who treats pregnant Nancy.
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Future moguls Dakota and Elle Fanning have left My Sister's Keeper, a film about a couple who conceives a child (Elle) to be a genetic match for her ailing sis(Dakota). Apparently, Dakota didn't want to shave her head to play sick. Diva! Oscar nom Abigail Breslin and newcomer Sofia Vassileva will fill the void.... Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Jason Leigh are exes in Spread, a sex comedy from director David MacKenzie (Young Adam).... After a series of complicated acquisitions and transfers of the rights to produce the first film adaptation of the Watchmen comic book series, Twentieth Century Fox is suing Warner Brothers over their planned flick, which stars Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino and Malin Akerman. — Mickey O'Connor
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Claire Danes have signed on to join Sienna Miller in Stardust, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel. De Niro will play pirate Captain Shakespeare, while Pfeiffer will fill the role of an evil witch.... Variety reports that Jack Black will join Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Squid and the Whale writer-director Noah Baumbach's as-yet-untitled new film.
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Single white female my butt. Jennifer Jason Leigh married director Noah Baumbach over Labor Day weekend, per People. It's the first marriage for both.
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Question: Who's the veteran female actress that was thisclose to signing with Lost that you teased about in Monday's Entertainment News?
Answer: Well, before Cynthia Watros nabbed the plum gig, producers approached Jennifer Jason Leigh to play Libby, the mysterious character who may or may not have been seated across from Michelle Rodriguez in the tail section of Oceanic Flight 815 when it crashed last fall. I'm not sure why the Leigh deal fell apart, but I'm really glad it did. Not only is Watros one of my favorite actresses/people in the biz, but she was the very first person I interviewed as a TV journalist — back in 1997 when she was on Guiding Light and I was gett
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