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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Marcia Gay Harden, an Oscar winner for Pollack and an Emmy nominee for a 2006 guest spot on Law & Order: SVU, is set to play a millionaire who buys the newspaper at the heart of the CBS drama pilot The Tower. As reported earlier this week, Cole Hauser and CCH Pounder are in the cast, playing an investigative reporter and his managing editor. Harden previously starred in CBS' The Education of Max Bickford. — MWM
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Yes, that was my shout of glee that woke up the neighbors Sunday night when Chandra Wilson was named outstanding female actor in a drama series for Grey’s Anatomy. At long last, Miranda Bailey has been given her due, and the wonderful Ms. Wilson rose to the occasion with a rapturous acceptance speech, acknowledging how unlikely it would be for someone with her skin, her nose, her height, her weight, to be accepted in this industry. (I think I also yelped in delight when the entire Grey’s cast took the stage for its well-deserved ensemble acting award.)This on the same night that Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera also took home an Actor trophy. Another unconventional, but absolutely right, choice.I tend to enjoy the crisp, fast-moving SAG Awards telecast—aside from those pretentious opening monologues in which the likes of Marg Helgenberger (revealing an astounding lot of cleavage, right up there with Marcia Gay Harden), Jada Pinkett Smith and Freddie Rodriguez remind ...
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Per Variety, Fox Animation is bringing Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox to the big screen, using several forms of animation, primarily stop-motion. Wes Anderson will direct.... Charlize Theron will join Woody Harrelson, Nick Stahl and Dennis Hopper on Ferris Wheel, an indie drama about an 11-year-old girl abandoned by her mother.... Night at the Museum, starring Ben Stiller and Robin Williams, will simultaneously be released in conventional and IMAX theaters on Dec. 22.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Heather Graham and Dylan McDermott are a beatnik couple in the indie drama A West Texas Children's Story.... Mystic River's Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden are in talks to reunite for Rails and Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood, daughter of Clint.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River) will play therapist to Jason O'Mara's insomniac detective in the ABC drama pilot Drift.... Jane Alexander (Warm Springs) has been cast as a witchcraft-wielding clan's matriarch in CBS' The Way.... Romy Rosemont (Shopgirl) has decided to swim with CBS' Shark, which stars James Woods as a celebrity-attorney-turned-prosecutor.
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