Drew Barrymore by Jim Spellman/ WireImage.com
The final ladies of Drew Barrymores Whip It are ready to roll Joining Barrymore and the previously cast Ellen Page in the roller derby comedy will be Marcia Gay Harden Kristen Wiig Juliette Lewis and Zoe Bell per the ReporterHarden will play Pages mom a former beauty queen whos less-than-pleased to see her daughter in skates instead of tiaras while Wiig Lewis and Bell will all play roller skaters As a huge ladies derby fan this seems like a movie whose time has come but will you be skating into theaters to see it With movie-skater handles like Malice in Wonderland can you really resist Anna DimondMore Movie Newsbull Jesse Plemons Friday Night Lights Up as Dope Dealerbull Box Office WALL-E Is Wanted More Than Angelina
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C.Thomas Howell on 24
If C. Thomas Howell's recent MIA status frustrates those who've had to rely on the USA network to air such memorable '80s fare as The Outsiders, Red Dawn and Soul Man, fear not. The drought has ended. During tonight's two-hour 24 "event" (starting at 8 pm/ET), the former Greaser makes his first of a handful of appearances as Barry Landes, a therapist whose ties to Jack Bauer are, shall we say, "complicated." As a result of this casting coup, longtime fans can finally allow their obsession to continue into the 21st century. As TVGuide.com uncovered in our interview with Howell, there's a lot more to him than what all those "Stay gold, Pony!" lobbyists would like us to believe. For starters, he
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Get ready for the new, uptight, buttoned-down Juliette Lewis. The 30-year-old actress — known for her wild youth and her freaky, hell-raising characters — takes a major career departure with Chasing Freedom, an original movie for Court TV airing Jan. 19 (9 pm/ET). Lewis plays Libby Brock, a staid, career-obsessed corporate lawyer forced by her boss to represent — pro bono — a young, Afghani woman seeking asylum in America. Set just before and immediately after Sept. 11, the film explores the horrors of life under the Taliban, as well as our own issues of homeland security and ethnic paranoia. It's heady, mature stuff for Lewis, who first gained fame (and an Oscar nod) as the Lolita-esque teen who sucked Robert DeNiro's thumb in 1991's Cape Fear. She went on to play a slew of
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