Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry is developing a feature film version of Jonathan Franzen's National Book Award winner The Corrections. Daldry's latest pic, the star-studded film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, opens Oct. 4.
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'N Sync have joined the roster of performers at next month's Grammy Awards... Michael Douglas is in talks to guest star on Will & Grace, Entertainment Tonight reports.
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After eight weeks atop Billboard's album chart, Creed's Weathered has been broadsided by Alan Jackson. The country superstar's new album, Drive, debuted at No. 1 with sales of 423,075 copies. Weathered slips to No. 2 with 128,050 units sold.
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Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, Johnny Depp, Hugh Grant, Richard Gere and Benicio Del Toro are the latest crop of thesps heading Inside the Actors Studio with host James Lipton. The "intimate" chats — in which performers dissect the craft known as acting — will tape between Jan. 28 and April 15; air dates are TBA. So, what's with the all-male lineup? Couldn't Lipton at least get Markie Post??? Responds a Bravo rep: "It just so happened that the first six actors who were available on the taping dates were men."
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Spin City's Alan Ruck has been in a hospital since Dec. 23 battling a strep infection that led to kidney failure. Although ABC says the 45-year-old thesp "is expected to make a full recovery," it's unlikely he will return to City this season.
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Legendary actor Sidney Poitier will receive an honorary Oscar at the 74th annual Academy Awards on March 24. Poitier is being recognized "for his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen, and for representing the motion picture industry with dignity, style and intelligence throughout the world," says Academy president Frank Pierson. "When the Academy honors Sidney Poitier, it honors itself even more." This will be Poitier's second gold statue: He won an Oscar for 1963's Lilies of the Field.
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The WB has pulled the plug on its second-year sitcom Nikki. Sunday's episode may be the show's last.
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After eight weeks atop Billboard's album chart, Creed's Weathered has been broadsided by Alan Jackson. The country superstar's new album, Drive, debuted at No. 1 with sales of 423,075 copies. Weathered slips to No. 2 with 128,050 units sold.
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