Oscar winner William Hurt tells Matt Mitovich about joining his old buddy — and new Emmy nominee — Glenn Close on Damages; his role as Patty Hewes' newest client, a consultant for an energy company, will give him the chance to explore "massive rights and massive wrongs."
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Ted Danson did a delicious job in the debut season of FX's dark Damages, and now the show has reeled in an equally tantalizing actor for the second cycle, arriving in early 2009. Oscar winner William Hurt will play a new client of Patty Hewes' — one who shares a personal as well as a professional past with Glenn Close's barracuda.Series creators Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman say in a statement, "We are thrilled and honored to have William join Glenn Close on our Damages dream team. The fuse is lit, and with these two actors going head to head, the fireworks are sure to fly."Before you ask, I will interject here that at this time, Danson's involvement in Season 2 has not been determined.Close and Hurt of course worked together for the first time in the 1983 boomer flick The Big Chill. — Ileane Rudolph
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Per Variety, a contemporized, all-African-American remake of Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill is in the works, with Regina King already in the ensemble.... Per the Reporter, Jennifer Aniston will produce and possibly star in Goree Girls, a 1940s-set musical about singing inmates in a women's prison.... William Hurt has joined the Edward Norton-fronted Incredible Hulk, playing Gen. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, the father of Dr. Banner's love interest/a man committed to capturing the big green guy.... Rachel Weisz is the dead girl's mother in Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones.
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion Why isnt Owen Wilsons name in the credits of Night at the Museum Is he ashamed of being in it SueFlickChick Owen Wilson is a good friend of Ben Stiller star of Night at the Museum He agreed to do an unbilled cameo in his friends film Actors will often go uncredited when theyre doing a tiny part because theres no way that can get the billing they would normally be accorded For a quick overview of the politics of billing please check out this FlickChick columnfrom 2005 In any event during test screenings Wilsons character a miniature cowboy tested so well with audiences that the filmmakers went back and scraped together enough footage to expand his part into a real role The absence of credit has nothing to do with shame or embarrassment the average actor has neither anyway Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion I cant believe I found your site its great Heres my que
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Tonight the nightmares begin. TNT's Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, that is. The four-week series of eight spine-tingling tales kicks off at 8 pm/ET with "Battleground" (starring William Hurt), followed at 9:50 pm by "Crouch End," in which Claire Forlani and Eion Bailey play a couple who wind up in the very wrong part of town while honeymooning in London. TVGuide.com spoke with Forlani about embarking on this trippy trip.
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