Short Cuts: Meryl Goes from Devil to Nunsense
Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman have been cast as the leads in
Doubt, the Miramax adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley play about a priest accused of pedophilia by a nun....
Ocean's Umpteen BFFs George Clooney and Brad Pitt will reteam in the Coen brother's hush-hush comedy
Burn After Reading, about a CIA agent who misplaces the disc of the book he's been writing.... Did Louis Gossett Jr. accept nearly $40,000 in Lakers tickets without ponying up the dough? Not on your life, he tells TMZ.com, maintaining that someone forged his signature.... Erik Estrada has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Which means the only people left who don't have one are Jan Smithers and that dog from
Frasier.
