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Think what you will about Katie Holmes' personal life, but the young mom is making a big professional move with a Broadway debut this fall.The actress — who, for the sake of contrast, found stardom on Dawson's Creek — will be moving on to meatier material (or drier, depending on your Dawson fandom) with Arthur Miller's All My Sons. The play depicts the tragedy of a man who knowingly sold defective plane parts to the government during World War II, and has to face the truth when his son wants to propose to his business partner's daughter. Holmes will be starring alongside the likes of John Lithgow, Patrick Wilson and Dianne Wiest.Details of the play's opening date and theater have not yet been announced but when they are...we just might be lining up. Will you? — Anna DimondEnjoy more of Katie Holmes' TV and movie appearances with our Online Video Guide.
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Someone hand me a walker, please, because Broadway is reviving something I saw the previous time around. [Old man's sigh] According to the New York Post, the Great White Way is welcoming back Guys and Dolls, with a spring 2008 opening in mind. The producers' dream cast, which sources say has a 50-50 chance of becoming reality: Debra Messing as Adelaide, John C. Reilly as Nathan, Patrick Wilson as Sky, and Anne Hathaway as sweet Sarah."I think of the dayyyyyys gone by...."
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Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode are among those on board as The Watchmen in Zack Snyder's adaptation of the iconic comic book, Variety reports. Crudup will play Dr. Manhattan, Wilson is Night Owl and Goode is Ozymandias, while Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jackie Earle Haley and Malin Akerman round out the cast as Comedian, Rorschach and Silk Spectre. The film will use a green-screen technique similar to what Snyder used for 300, and also reap similar greenbacks.
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Per Variety, Lauren Graham and Greg Kinnear are wife and husband in Flash of Genius, a drama about — and I do not kid you — the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper and how years of legal woes suffocated his marriage.... Patrick Wilson is joining Sam Jackson and Kerry Washington in Lakeview Terrace, a thriller about an interracial couple harassed by a racist LAPD officer.... Per the Reporter, Mischa Barton is (well, duh) the most popular girl at a Catholic high school and Rumer Willis is her best gal pal in the dark comedy The Sophomore, pegged as a teen take on Chinatown. Rumer's dad, Bruce, plays the principal.... Vivica A. Fox will star in Three Can Play That Game, a sequel to 2001's Two Can Play That Game (aka "Zero Can Remember It").
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Anna Faris will play a girl from the future in Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, a sci-fi comedy in which three social outcasts mess with the time continuum.... Amy Smart and Patrick Wilson are a couple whose idyllic life is upended in Life in Flight.... Per Variety, Martin Lawrence is The Better Man in a dramedy about a single dad and outrageous talk-show host who begins to question his path in life.... Freaks & Geeks reunion alert! (Thanks, Lisa.) James Franco and Seth Rogen are tokers who get caught up with a drug gang in The Pineapple Express.
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