Archive: December 2009 (211-220 of 319)

Dec 9 2009 04:00 AM ET

'Parks and Recreation' writer sells comedy pitch to Fox

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Fox has taken on the pitch Jackpot from Parks and Recreation writer-editor Alan Yang, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The comedy is about high school friends who win the lottery. Michael Aguilar (What Happens in Vegas) will produce.

Dec 9 2009 04:00 AM ET

Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston in talks for 'Pretend Wife': report

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are in talks to star in romantic comedy Pretend Wife. Columbia is developing the project with Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan in contention to direct. The script, previously known as Holiday in Hawaii, is written by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling. No plot details are being released at this point; the film could be ready for a release on Feb. 11, 2011.

Dec 9 2009 04:00 AM ET

Steven Soderbergh to debut Spaulding Gray doc at Slamdance

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Slamdance 2010’s world premieres will include Steven Soderbergh’s And Everything Is Going Fine, a documentary about the late writer Spaulding Gray. According to Variety, Soderbergh will also take part in the Filmmaker Summit at this year’s Slamdance (Jan. 21-28).

Dec 8 2009 09:55 PM ET

Chris Cuomo leaving 'Good Morning America'

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Chris Cuomo, the news reader on ABC’s Good Morning America, will reportedly be replaced by ABC News correspondent JuJu Chang. (The New York Post first reported the story.) The shake-up comes as the network re-works the show around Diane Sawyer’s departure this Friday to anchor World News. George Stephanopoulos has been offered Sawyer’s spot on GMA. ABC News had no further comment to EW, but several outlets are reporting that Cuomo could end up co-anchoring ABC’s Friday newsmagazine 20/20 with Elizabeth Vargas. The son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo wrote on his Twitter feed Monday morning, “Yes, change is coming…All is good. Will tell more soon.”

Dec 8 2009 08:59 PM ET

Nicolas Cage sued by mother of eldest son for home eviction

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Nicolas Cage’s financial troubles just keep getting worse. According to court papers filed today, Christina Fulton, Cage’s ex-girlfriend and the mother of his 18-year-old son Weston, is suing Cage for more than $13 million, claiming that he’s attempting to evict her from the Los Angeles home he purchased for her, in exchange for her becoming “the sole caregiver to Weston.” Fulton also alleges that Cage and his former accountant, Samuel Levin, are responsible for her own financial woes, including more than $1 million she purportedly owes the IRS. At press time, Cage’s representatives have not yet returned calls from EW seeking comment, but his lawyer Marty Singer called the suit “ridiculous and absurd” in a statement to People.com. (Additional reporting by John Young)

Dec 8 2009 06:33 PM ET

Travis Barker settles plane crash lawsuit

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According to the Associated Press, Travis Barker has settled his lawsuit against several companies involved in his plane crash. The former Blink-182 drummer had filed the suit against companies like Learjet, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and the plane’s owners one year ago, claiming they had not properly maintained the Learjet that crashed on Sept. 19, 2008. (Following the crash, investigators found some pieces of the plane were not in the proper position to help slow it down.) Terms of the confidential settlement will not be released.

Dec 8 2009 06:07 PM ET

Edward Albee's new play to open in August 2010

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Three-time Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Edward Albee will open Playwrights Horizons’ 40th anniversary with his new play, Me, Myself & I. The show — which will premiere in August 2010 at the company’s Mainstage Theater in New York — follows identical twin brothers with the same name. “As a writers’ theater, it feels unspeakably lucky and fitting to launch our season with this giddily entertaining and challenging play by our pre-eminent living playwright,” Horizons Artistic Director Tim Sanford said in a press release. Emily Mann has been tapped to direct, while Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray are poised to star in the play. Other casting decisions will be announced in the coming months.

Dec 8 2009 03:57 PM ET

Advertisers pull out of 'Jersey Shore' ... sort of

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MTV’s Jersey Shore has lost a bit of advertising after concerns were raised over the reality series’ depiction of Italian-Americans. But Domino’s, which decided not to run ads on the show after appearing in one spot on the Dec. 3 premiere episode, says the decision wasn’t due to Italian-American organization UNICO National’s complaints. The pizza chain also says it will continue to buy time on the network, just not specifically on Jersey Shore: “Our third-party media buyer, after reviewing the show, told MTV Friday morning that the content wasn’t right for Domino’s,” a spokesman said. “The request to keep our spots from future episodes took place in the morning, well before we received any complaints or inquiries from anyone. We make our ad buy decisions internally, not due to any outside influences. We have no issue with MTV, and we haven’t pulled our advertising from the network. We just don’t want to be on that particular show.” American Family Insurance also stopped running spots during the controversial show, but for strictly technical reasons, a spokesman said: The company had “a very limited association” with the show, with promos for special safe-teen-driving webisodes running during the premiere, but set to end when the online series ended on Sunday. “The only action we took was to ask them not to run the promos during the Jersey Shore reruns this weekend,” the spokesman said.

Dec 8 2009 11:50 AM ET

Tiger Woods' mother-in-law hospitalized this morning

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The woman rushed to the hospital from Tiger Woods’ Florida home this morning was his mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, People.com reports. The 57-year-old Swedish politician was taken to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla., at 2:35 a.m. after suffering from shortness of breath and dizziness.

UPDATE: Holmberg has been released from the hospital and is recuperating at Woods’ Florida home.

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Dec 8 2009 10:31 AM ET

Bryant Gumbel reveals lung cancer

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Bryant Gumbel revealed that he has lung cancer while guest co-hosting this morning’s Live! With Regis & Kelly. The 61-year-old former Today show anchor said he’s being treated for the disease after surgery last month to remove a tumor from his chest. “We had told a few people, we told my family, obviously,” he said. “I even kept it from my staff at Real Sports. So I’m okay for the time being.”

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