It appears that the always controversial Oliver Stone has been busy tinkering away on his latest project and its title need not more than a single letter to sum it up best W The comedic biopic piece follows through the life of George W Bush from his party boy days in college to President of our country with a cast including Josh Brolin as Bush Elizabeth Banks as the First Lady and Richard Dreyfuss as good ol Dick So why after all these years is the movie being made now Perhaps Stone sees it as the ultimate send off for our beloved POTUS before handing over the reigns Gina DiNunno
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Richard Dreyfuss might soon be joining Oliver Stones W his upcoming film about the Bush administration Dreyfuss if youre mentally perusing the Bush cabinet is in final talks to play veep Dick Cheney Says the Reporter the role is the last major one in the Bush administration to be decided for the flick The White House already has Josh Brolin as the prez Thandie Newton as Condi Rice and Elizabeth Banks as the First Lady Laura Bush The role would of a US leader would be a first for Dreyfuss but he has played a senator in The American President not to mention his unrelated role as the UFO-obsessed dad in Close Encounters of the Third Kind which may or may not be so unrelated after all Is Dreyfuss the right pick to play Dick And how will Stone handle this latest bit of political drama Anna DimondMore on W149 Elizabeth Banks to Play the First Lady149 George W Bush Gets Oliver Stoned More Movie News
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It's just like the sleazy mayor in Jaws says: "You yell, 'Barracuda,' everybody says, 'Huh? What?' You yell, 'Shark,' you've got a ratings smash in the middle of summer!" Discovery Channel's Sunday-night Shark Week special, Ocean of Fear: The Worst Shark Attack Ever, brought the cabler its best numbers ever for the annual feeding frenzy. The Richard Dreyfuss-narrated Shark Attack hooked 3.9 million total viewers, way more than 2003's Anatomy of a Shark Bite (which scared up 3.2 million). The 20th "Shark Week" runs through Saturday. In related news, Daryl Hannah, John Schneider and Armand Assante have signed on to star in Hallmark Channel's three-hour Shark Swarm, about... oh, come on. Read the title.
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• Richard Dreyfuss is joining Sci Fi Channel's Tin Man, playing a wizard known as Mystic Man, Reuters reports. This leaves the roles of Raw, a wolverine creature, and Cain, a former policeman with a scarred heart, to be cast in the Oz-some miniseries.• Exclusive: Clancy Brown (Lost) will play Rudy Blue, "a fallen baseball idol whose all-star career is overshadowed by sketchy investments and sexual indescretions," on the April 9 episode of FX's The Riches (premiering Mar. 12).• Big You-know-who has been replaced by... Cliff Clavin. Cheers' John Ratzenberger has claimed Vincent Pastore's spot on Dancing with the Stars, ABC announced on Friday.
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Question: Maybe 40 or so years ago, wasn't there a television show called Karen? For some reason I'm thinking it starred a young actress who turned out to be a big actress. Or perhaps it's only wishful thinking. Thanks!
Answer: Well, there was a sitcom called Karen that ran on NBC for a year beginning in October 1964, but none of the ladies in the cast went on to make a huge impact. (And I can't imagine what your interest in such a show would be... Karen.)
Debbie Watson starred as a wayward teen on the show, which was part of the 90-minute, three-part 90 Bristol Court, a series made up of three comedies taking place in the same apartment building. Others in the cast included Richard Denning, Mary LaRoche, Gina Gillespie, Bernadette Withers, Trudi Ames, Teddy Quinn, Murray MacLeod and a man who's probably the only one on the whole show to
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