After "mastering" the salsa on Dancing with the Stars, we ask: Is there anything Cloris Leachman can't do? See what the feisty octogenarian is up to next, and what Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino have to do with it...
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And the Tarantino casting craze continuesAccording to The Hollywood Reporter German-born actress Diane Kruger Troy National Treasure has been cast as Bridget Von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantinos Inglorious BastardsThe central role was originally pegged for Nastassja Kinski but a deal was never reach between the actress and Tarantino Now Kruger will play the part of a German actress who helps Nazi hunters infiltrate a movie premiere Til Schweiger has also signed on to star in the World War II film which already boasts a sizable star-power with a cast including Brad Pitt Eli Roth Mike Myers Christoph Waltz and Daniel Bruhl Gina DiNunnoRelatedbull Brad Pitt Joins Tarantinos Inglorious WWII Film
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Brad Pitt is ready to kill some NazisThe actor has signed on to play the head of the Jewish resistance in Inglorious Bastards Quentin Tarantinos World War II film according to the ReporterPitts character is a Southern rebel who leads eight Jewish American soldiers carrying out vengeance in German-occupied FranceThis is the first collaboration between Pitt 44 and Tarantino 45 as actor and directorThose familiar with the script said Pitts character is a prone to saying things like Were gonna be doing one thing and one thing only and thats killing Nazis THR saidPitt wont be the only recognizable face in the film The Offices BJ Novak is in talks to play one of the soldiers in the troop Tim Molloy
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Did Britney get a leg up on a porn queenQuentin Tarantino who previously pronounced Tera Patrick to be his pick to play Varla in a remake of 1965s Faster Pussycat Kill Kill by one account is now eyeing Spears instead A source tells the UKs Telegraph Quentin is convinced Britney will be brilliant as the lesbian stripper who murders a guy with her bare hands before taking his girlfriend hostage [And Britney] is delighted She thinks it could turn her career around As Varla Spears would also engage in simulated sex scenes with another girlDoes Britney plus Tarantino plus lesbian sex scenes add up to too purrrfect an unconfirmed rumor I really dont see this happening one film industry insider tells TVGuidecom scoffing at the Telegraphs tale Tarantino is going to be really busy for the next few years with Inglorious Bastards [starring Michael Madsen and Adam Sandler and perhaps being produced in two parts a la Kill Bill] I dont believe this
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DVD Tuesday Kill Bill A trip down exploitation-movie memory laneI like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguezs Grindhouse 2007 But I love Tarantinos Kill Bill Both tap into fond memories of haunting the real grindhouses of New Yorks then notorious Times Square Times Square was never what it used to be There was always someone around to tell you that you should have seen it when Cue some nostalgic tale that starts it was so sleazy that Trust me back in the 1970s it was plenty sleazy and today its like the Las Vegas casino version of its bad old self But what a place to see low-budget American horror yakuza pictures spaghetti Westerns Eurotrash thrillers and sexploitation martial arts epics mondo movies and assorted weirdness all of which and more go into the Kill Bill mixThe plot is simple if digressive A professional assassin code named Black Mamba Uma Thurman is murdered on her wedding on her wedding day Except that she doesnt die After
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