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NYPD Blue's Charlotte Ross has broken off her engagement with her CAA agent-beau Jeremy Plager, TV Guide Online has learned... Newcomer Sharif Atkins has been upgraded to series regular status on ER... Nicole Kidman will play flamboyant Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Court and Spark, a film based on the life of the 12th-century monarch, according to The Hollywood Reporter... Hank Azaria's poorly reviewed NBC comedy Imagine That got off to a lousy start Tuesday night, drawing just 7.7 million viewers... Dennis Hopper is in talks to join the cast of Fox's 24 as the mastermind behind the presidential assassination plot... Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sigourney Weaver will lend their voices to the upcoming animated comedy Happily N'Ever After, which is slated for release in summer 2003. — Michael Ausiello with Daniel R. Coleridge