America loves a comeback story and few can compete with the tumultuous rise, fall and return of Marion Jones. Once a media darling, the disgraced Olympic sprinter lost the five medals she won at the 2000 Summer Games after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs. When Jones had previously lied about that to federal investigators (as well as her role in a check-fraud case), she was sentenced to six months in prison. After a difficult incarceration that included a demoralizing seven-week stint in solitary confinement, she was ...
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John Singleton is in talks to bring TV's The A-Team to the big screen, though buzz that Boyz N the Hood's Ice Cube will follow in Mr. T's mohawksteps as B.A. has been denied by Fox.... Andy Serkis is reteaming with his LOTR director in Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tintin. Per the Reporter, Serkis is rumored to be playing Capt. Haddock.... Heroes' Eriko Tamura (playing Mai), Joon Park (as Yamcha) and Emmy Rossum, have joined the cast of Dragonball.
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The impossibly hot Scarlett Johansson (see Match Point when it comes out and you'll know what I'm talking about) has been tapped to star in Napoleon and Betsy, an indie about Napoleon's last years on St. Helena, Variety reports.... Oscar-nominated direct John Singleton is in talks to helm Convoy, an action-adventure set in Afghanistan and not about that great 1970s trucker song.
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