Archive: September 2009 (181-190 of 314)

Sep 14 2009 05:19 PM ET

Ray Romano headed to Golf Channel

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Categories: Misc.

Ray Romano, star of the Emmy-winning show Everybody Loves Raymond will return to series television in the Golf Channel reality show The Haney Project, the Associated Press reports. Romano will place his golf swing in the hands of Hank Haney, Tiger Woods’ golf coach, following a successful season in which Haney lent his expertise to former NBA star Charles Barkley. The Haney Project featuring Romano will debut in March.

Sep 14 2009 04:57 PM ET

'Desperate Housewives' actress has lung cancer

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Categories: Misc.

Kathryn Joosten, better known to TV audiences as Desperate Housewives‘ Mrs. McCluskey, has lung cancer, People.com reports. The two-time Emmy winner received the diagnosis less than a week ago, a recurrence of the lung cancer she battled in 2001. “I’ve got a little hang up here,” she said of the battle she faces. “But we’re going to handle it and move forward. I’m doing great.” The 69-year-old, who also played Mrs. Landingham on The West Wing, says her treatment may disrupt shooting on the ABC series.

Sep 14 2009 03:11 PM ET

Update: Elton John cannot adopt Ukranian baby

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Categories: Music, Music Biz

People is reporting that Elton John and his partner, David Furnish, cannot adopt Lev, the Ukranian toddler they met over the weekend, due to Ukranian laws prohbiting same sex couples from adopting and restricting parents who are at least 45 years older than the child (John is 62). The Ukranian President, Viktor Yushchenko, would have to grant John and Furnish adoption rights.

Sep 14 2009 01:52 PM ET

Taylor Swift to appear on 'The View' tomorrow

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Categories: Music, Music Biz

Country superstar Taylor Swift will be a guest on ABC’s The View tomorrow morning and is expected to discuss her incident with Kanye West at the VMAs last night. Swift will also perform two songs on the talk show.

Sep 14 2009 12:08 PM ET

'Avenue Q' makes unprecedented move to Off-Broadway

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Categories: Stage

Last night’s performance of Tony-winning Broadway hit Avenue Q was supposed to be the show’s last in New York City, but in a surprise move, it turns out that Q is instead headed to an Off-Broadway venue, with new performances in a 499-seat smaller space to begin Oct. 9. According to a release from the production, it’s a rather unprecedented move: This is the first time a Broadway musical has transferred to an Off-Broadway theater. The Sept. 13 performance had long been set as the show’s final curtain, but at the end of the production, producers appeared on stage to make the announcement that the show would move from its current home at the John Golden Theatre to its new home at New World Stages.

During its six-plus years on Broadway, Avenue Q played 2,534 performances to become, at present, the 20th longest running show in Broadway history. More than 2 million people have seen Avenue Q on Broadway, which doesn’t include its national tour or production in London’s West End. In 2004, the puppet-fronted musical won the Tony for Best Musical against the big-budget spectacle Wicked, which is still selling out the Gershwin Theater on Broadway.

Sep 14 2009 10:48 AM ET

Harrison Ford ready for fifth 'Indiana Jones' film

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Harrison Ford is game for a fifth Indiana Jones movie, which George Lucas is currently developing, France’s Le Figaro reports. ”The story for the new Indiana Jones is in the process of taking form,” Ford said at the Deauville Film Festival. “Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and myself are agreed on what the fifth adventure will concern, and George is actively at work. If the script is good, I’ll be very happy to put the costume on again.”

UPDATE: Spielberg rep Marvin Levy confirms Ford’s statement to EW, but he adds that at this point, “there’s no script, there are no writers.”

Sep 14 2009 05:55 AM ET

Hathaway, Gyllenhaal get support for 'Love and Other Drugs'

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Categories: Misc.

Love and Other Drugs, the adaptation of Jamie Reidy’s book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman director Ed Zwick begins shooting at the end of the month, has added to its cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gabriel Macht, Hank Azaria, and Oliver Platt have come onboard. Macht will play a Prozac salesman who’s involved with Anne Hathaway’s character, a woman with Parkinson’s disease who starts a relationship with a Viagara salesman (Jake Gyllenhaal). Azaria plays a doctor/client of Gyllenhaal’s; Platt costars as Gyllenhaal’s boss.

Sep 14 2009 05:50 AM ET

James McAvoy, Robin Wright Penn set for Redford's Lincoln assassination drama

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Categories: Movies

James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn will topline Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, a drama surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Variety reports. McAvoy will play Frederick Aiken, a war hero who defends Wright Penn’s Mary Surratt, a woman charged in conspiring to murder the president. The film is scheduled to begin shooting in October.

Sep 14 2009 05:26 AM ET

Adrianne Palicki cast in thriller

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Categories: Movies

Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki have been cast in the Jamie Babbit-directed thriller Breaking the Girl. According to Variety, the film “tells the story of a naive college student who loses a scholarship at the hands of a classmate and makes a pact with a mysterious friend to kill off each other’s enemies.” The movie goes into production this spring.

Sep 14 2009 05:20 AM ET

Eric McCormack set for con, comedy

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Categories: Television

Eric McCormack has two new roles in the works: He’s set to play the con man known as Clark Rockefeller in a Lifetime movie and star in a single-camera comedy, according to the Hollywood Reporter.The untitled comedy, from Til Death producers Alex Barnow and Mark Firek, centers on “a recent widower surrounded by an eccentric cast of family and friends who tries to put his life back together.” The Rockefeller movie, based on the true story, is scheduled for a March 2010 release.

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