Into the West on TNT

Question: Rumors of Speedy on ER, rumors of Speedy on Alias — it's enough to drive the girls of FanForum crazy! What's the real scoop?

Answer: The real scoop is I have no clue if Speedman was ever up for the new agent role on Alias, but it's a moot point anyway: The role ended up going to Balthazar Getty (Into the West, Traffic).

Executives at TNT and DreamWorks refused to elaborate on the allegations, saying the Steven Spielberg production — which included 15,000 extras (many of whom were Native American) and a half-mile wagon train — "treated everyone with care." And that "we take these specific complaints seriously and will look into them immediately."

Irene Bedard, who plays Margaret Light Shines Wheeler, the daughter of a Lakota and a settler, confirms that weather on location was awful. "Snow and mud and wind... we were all cold," she says, adding that the low temperatures were harder on the Native American actors, who were wearing skimpier costumes, than on the white actors in settler read more