Austin Nichols, who starred as HBO's John from Cincinnati, is returning to his hometown of Austin, Texas, to play a Dillon High teach on NBC's Friday Night Lights, reports the city's Statesman paper. Nichols' multiple-episode arc will begin soon after the Oct. 5 season-opener.... Regina Hall (Ally McBeal) will play Cedric the Entertainer's successfully entrepreneurial housewife in the comedian's comedy pilot for ABC, says the Reporter.
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In bringing The Honeymooners to the big screen, costars Gabrielle Union and Regina Hall faced considerable challenges.
The two actresses had to elude the shadows of
classic TV icons
Audrey Meadows and
Joyce Randolph, who played Alice and Trixie. They also had to turn two white '50s housewives into modern, independent black women. What's more, the Gabrielle Union of take-no-bull,
Deliver Us from Eva fame — who married NFL player
Chris Howard in 2001 — definitely had to forget her own marital habits to play Alice.
"[Alice] is so different from me as a wife," Union explains. "I'm not as forgiving. I tend to speak and then I think about what I just said, whereas this role took me back to the advice my mom gave me before I got married. She was like, 'You're in for a rude awakening; you're going to
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