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"Dancing With the Stars" avoids conflict with new cast
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television ballroom contest "Dancing With the Stars" took a step back from controversy with its new cast unveiled on Tuesday, including tennis champ Martina Navratilova, several TV actors, an opera singer and Gladys Knight without ...
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James Bond and Batman help rescue London developers
LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood is helping London developers weather the financial crisis by turning empty offices into film sets, providing cash and publicity for landlords struggling to fill buildings with tenants because of the uncertain economic outlo...
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Alan Ball stepping down from "True Blood"
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "True Blood's" upcoming fifth season will be the last with Alan Ball in charge. Ball, who created and executive produces HBO's vampire drama, will not continue as the series' showrunner if the show goes on to another season,...
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Lucy Liu joins CBS Sherlock Holmes pilot "Elementary"
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Elementary, my dear Watson? Hardly. Lucy Liu has joined the cast of CBS' Sherlock Holmes-drama pilot -- as Holmes' assistant Watson. Who traditionally has been portrayed by, you know, male actors. With "Charlie's Angels" sta...
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John McCain has no plans to watch HBO’s "Game Change"
LOS ANGELES, Feb 27 (TheWrap.com) - Sounds like HBO has lost a viewer for its upcoming political biopic "Game Change." Sen. John McCain -- whose 2008 presidential campaign gets the dramatization treatment in the film -- asserted on Saturday that he has...
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James Spader quits "The Office"
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - James Spader is taking early retirement from "The Office." The former "Boston Legal" star is leaving the NBC sitcom after he completes the current eighth season of the series, which was his first with the show, the network c...
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Giancarlo Esposito joins NBC pilot "Revolution"
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - "Breaking Bad" star Giancarlo Esposito is about to play another potentially two-faced character. Esposito has signed on to the J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and Eric Kripke-produced NBC pilot "Revolution," about a world where all for...
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CW finds its Carrie Bradshaw in AnnaSophia Robb
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The CW has found its Carrie Bradshaw. AnnaSophia Robb, the star of last year's big-screen offering "Soul Surfer," has landed the lead role of a young Carrie Bradshaw in the CW pilot "The Carrie Diaries," the network confirme...
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s red carpet stunt had Academy worried
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Sacha Baron Cohen's stunt of spilling ashes on Ryan Seacrest on the Oscar red carpet earned the comic a quick visit from Academy president Tom Sherak and Oscar show producer Brian Grazer, who went to Baron Cohen's dressing r...
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Billy Crystal, Jolie’s leg boost Oscar audience
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Billy Crystal, Angelina Jolie's leg and French silent film "The Artist" brought the Oscars bouncing back from recent slack viewership, drawing a larger-than-expected 39 million TV viewers and setting social media abuzz. Some 39....
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