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Sigourney Weaver Offers Prayers for Bobby | Today's News: Our Take | 5/19/2008
Variety reports Sigourney Weaver will co-produce and star in Prayers for Bobby, about a conservative woman whose gay son takes his own life.The Lifetime movie is based on Leroy Aarons' 1995 book (shop Amazon) that depicts the true story of a family's opposition to their son's homosexuality. Weaver's character questions her stance against her son's sexual choices after he falls into a deep depression and eventually commits suicide.Russell Mulcahy — who directed Showtime's Queer as Folk... read more
At the Movies: Sigourney Gets Tina Fey a Baby | Today's News: Our Take | 4/30/2007
Per the Hollywood Reporter, Sigourney Weaver is in talks to play the owner of the agency that hooks up wannabe-mom Tina Fey with surrogate Amy Poehler in Baby Mama.... Wedding Crashers hottie Isla Fisher is The Cookie Queen, the holder of a 20-year-old Girl Scout cookie sales record who resorts to sabotage when a fifth grader eyes her title.... Amber Heard (the CW's Hidden Palms) has boarded The Pineapple Express, playing Seth Rogen's honey.... Per Variety, Ridley Scott will direct Russell... read more
DVD Pick of the Week: April 24, 2007 | Commentary Track | 4/18/2007
I'm extremely excited for April 24, because that's the day one of my most anticipated titles is released. No, it's not WKRP, which is plagued with music-licensing issues. It's the BBC release of Planet Earth. This 11-episode series explores our planet like no other series has done, from the North Pole to the South Pole, it's all covered in this program. They spent $25 million and 2,000 days in the field shooting material for the program, and they did it all using high-definition cameras.... read more
Casting About: Things Look Rosey for Sigourney | Today's News: Our Take | 3/9/2007
Sigourney Weaver — who has stripped down to her skivvies in films such as Alien and Ghostbusters, to name but two — has been tapped to play famed burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee in an HBO biopic, Variety reports. Gypsy and Me, to shoot by year's end, will be based on My G-String Mother, a memoir written by the performer's son, Erik Lee Preminger, who by age 12 was serving as her stage manager.... Desperate Housewives' Andrea Bowen will play a popular high-school honor student who... read more
At the Movies: Good Night Star Gets Ultimatum | Today's News: Our Take | 9/29/2006
Per Variety, Good Night and Good Luck's David Strathairn has booked a pair of new gigs: the lead in the fantasy pic The Spiderwick Chronicles, and the role of Matt Damon's latest pursuer in The Bourne Ultimatum.... Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth are in talks to star in The Girl in the Park, about a woman traumatized by the 15-years-ago disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter. Bosworth's rumored deal breaker: plentiful salad options at the crafts-services table.... Robot Chicken creators... read more
At the Movies: Carrey and Carell Hear a Who | Today's News: Our Take | 9/13/2006
Turning a blind eye to the horror that was The Grinch, Jim Carrey again will give life to a Dr. Seuss character, this time voicing the titular elephant in a CGI-animated take on Horton Hears a Who, Variety reports. The Office's Steve Carell will voice the Mayor of Whoville.... Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Christopher Lloyd ("Marty!!"), William H. Macy and Sigourney Weaver are among the voice cast of The Tale of Despereaux, an animated adaptation of the award-winning children's book about a... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/27/2006
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Today's News: My Take | 8/30/2005
Jessica Alba folds her arms and blinks away reports that h read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/9/2005
Three-time Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver and read more
FlickChick | 2/24/2005
Question: Jamie Foxx is nominated both for best actor for Ray and best supporting actor for Collateral. What other actor read more
The Watercooler | 2/2/2005
American Idol Yes! Did I deliver the scoop in Tuesday's Insider or what? As the preview clips of Wednesday night's show read more
The Watercooler | 12/8/2004
Gilmore Girls Uh-oh! It's a rerun of the season opener, where Lorelai caught Rory bein' a Gilmore Whore with Dean, her read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/13/2004
Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver have been added to the cast of Every Word Is True, Warner Independent Pictures' Tru read more
The Watercooler | 8/10/2004
North Shore So the producers were desperate enough to hire Shannen Doherty, huh? Gotta admit, it's a gutsy move, one th read more
FlickChick | 3/20/2003
Question: How many times has an actor or actress been nominated for two awards in one year? — RuthS Flickchick: I as read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 12/3/2002
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many showbiz folks sought to contribute to relief efforts. As a native New Yorker, read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/14/2002
Fuggedabout the high-brow Oval Office drama on The West Wing. America clearly prefers the low-brow hot tub hook-ups on T read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/16/2002
The 27th Toronto Film Festival (Sept. 5-14) will pause on Sept. 11 to acknowledge the one-year anniversary of America's read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/15/2002
Aging actresses often get discouraged by the prospect of playing matronly parts. Of course, 52-year-old Sigourney Weaver read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/3/2002
Broadway star Bebe Neuwirth is best known as Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane from TV's Cheers and Frasier. Boy, would her psych read more