Frank Booth eyeballing the White House? Per Variety, Dennis Hopper is the Democratic contender and Kelsey Grammer the GOP incumbent in Swing Vote, a comedy starring Kevin Costner as a working-class dad who holds the deciding ballot in a presidential election. Nathan Lane and Stanley Tucci are their campaign managers.... Pride & Prejudice's Rupert Friend has been cast as Prince Albert to Emily Blunt's Young Victoria.... Warner Bros. has grabbed big-screen rights to David Morrell's The Brotherhood of the Rose, previously adapted as a late-'80s miniseries.... Per the Reporter, Jennifer Esposito is a single mom who gets involved with Val Kilmer's mysterious Iraq War vet in Conspiracy.
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Warner Bros. and überproducer Joel Silver are in talks to acquire the rights to the '80s TV 'toon Masters of the Universe, for the purpose of staging a live-action feature not stunk up by Dolph Lundgren.... Per Playbill.com, Nathan Lane and John Turturro join Elle Fanning in Nutcracker — The Untold Story, a cinematic take on the beloved ballet.... Cuba Gooding Jr. is a friendly high-school janitor in Harold, an indie comedy about a prematurely balding teen.
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American Idol Season 1 finalist Tamyra Gray will join the cast of Broadway's Rent on May 29. During her run, she'll share the stage with original players Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, who, despite middle age, return to their humble roots July 30.... Nathan Lane and Luke Duke himself, Tom Wopat, have been invited to appear in a workshop of Catch Me If You Can, a musicalization of the Steven Spielberg film. The same team that turned Hairspray into a Broadway blockbuster hope to cast Lane in the Tom Hanks role and Wopat as the juvenile con's dad. No word on who will fill Leonardo DiCaprio's disguises.... Weeds scribe Rinne Groff and others are turning Saved! into an off-Broadway musical to premiere next spring. —Reporting by Raven Snook
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As our friends over at Idol and 30 Rock apparently knows who they are would say Listen up dawg It wasnt my favorite performance but Yeah something about this weeks episode in which Liz claimed power Jack found family and Tracy sought religion a subplot deserving of far greater screen time just wasnt clicking for me Was it because the Dad isnt dead twist was seen coming up Broadway I dunno That said Nathan Lane was an excellent guest star and as my wife and I agreed actually kinda sorta looks like Alec Baldwin In a squint-your-eyes Barbara-Walters-soft-focus wayThe Dona-heeDonag-heeDona-fee siblings reunion was a fun visual if only to see such a mishmash of SNL vets peppered throughout When did Molly Shannon stop eatingLizs power trip I wasnt quite feeling it I know Im being such a Debby Downer though we all can probably identify with having that rare opportunity to squash a rival by questionable means and he
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Despite weeks of talk that Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick might reprise the roles they originated in The Producers, so that the musical might eke out an extra few (and likely $old-out) weeks on the Great White Way, the plug instead will be pulled after the Apr. 22 performance — three days after the show's sixth anniverary, the New York Daily News reports. To date, the Broadway staging has earned $300 million, though Max Bialystock insists it's in the red.
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