• Richard Dreyfuss is joining Sci Fi Channel's Tin Man, playing a wizard known as Mystic Man, Reuters reports. This leaves the roles of Raw, a wolverine creature, and Cain, a former policeman with a scarred heart, to be cast in the Oz-some miniseries.• Exclusive: Clancy Brown (Lost) will play Rudy Blue, "a fallen baseball idol whose all-star career is overshadowed by sketchy investments and sexual indescretions," on the April 9 episode of FX's The Riches (premiering Mar. 12).• Big You-know-who has been replaced by... Cliff Clavin. Cheers' John Ratzenberger has claimed Vincent Pastore's spot on Dancing with the Stars, ABC announced on Friday.
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Cheers and Monsters, Inc.: One's a comedy about a ragtag group of odd-yet-amusing beings, and the other is the new box-office hit from the makers of A Bug's Life and Toy Story. Yet, what do the two successful ventures have in common? John Ratzenberger, portrayer of trivia-spouting postman Cliff Clavin on the former Must-See mainstay, and voice of the lonely Yeti in Pixar's latest computer-animated film.
While Monsters, Inc. — with a take thus far of $225 million — falls shy of the pace being set by bewitching cineplex rivals Harry and Frodo, it is netting sequel-worthy numbers. But as Raztenberger tells TV Guide Online, "I don't think
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