Fox Atomic has officially ceased production on its Revenge of the Nerds remake, which it had hoped to release next summer. Sources close to the production tell Variety that studio biggies were not satisfied with the dailies for the film, which suffered a setback earlier this month when Emory University booted the production off its campus.... MGM has set a Dec. 1 release date for Two Weeks, a comedy about a quartet of brothers and sisters who rush home to say a final farwell to their ailing mother (Sally Field), only to see her cling to life, trapping them together for weeks. This sounds funny!
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Per Variety, four days before filming was to begin, Emory University renegged on an agreement to play host to Fox Atomic's Revenge of the Nerds remake, reportedly due to the film's raunchy content. The project is now on hiatus.... Julia Roberts will topline The Friday Night Knitting Club, based on an upcoming novel about a single mom juggling a teen daughter and a knitting store.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Robert De Niro and 50 Cent are in talks to costar in New Orleans, a thriller set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina.... Desperate Housewives hunk Jesse Metcalfe is a rich kid ensnared in the world of drugs, sex and violence in Loaded, an indie also starring Johnny Messner and Monica Keena.
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Per Variety, Angelina Jolie is set to star as Dagny Taggart in a film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.... Brazilian beauty Alice Braga is Will Smith's leading lady in I Am Legend.... Katie Cassidy, who reportedly beat out Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and Speed TV's Debbie Beal for the role of Lucy Ewing in the Dallas feature film, is in final talks to play Pi Delta Pi's queen bee in the Revenge of the Nerds redo.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Jesse Bradford will star opposite Elisha Cuthbert in My Sassy Girl, a remake of a hit South Korean romantic comedy.
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Heather Graham, Emily's Reasons Why Not
The Book of Daniel There's something about pairing Jesus with a Vicodin-popping Episcopalian priest that creates brouhaha. We expected the Bill O'Reillys of the world to complain (Someday O'Reilly is going to be driven to insanity when he awakens in the Twilight Zone surrounded by nice, sensible people), but apparently many in the Midwest found the subject matter so repellent that stations in places like Terre Haute pulled Daniel from their schedules. Another triumph for the easily offended. Normal-ites should ask a different question: Is The Book of Daniel worth checking out? I'd say it's a flawed but worthwhile experiment. Aidan Quinn makes a very human reverend, a man whose faith in God is directly proportional to the lack of faith he has in himself. D
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Heather Graham, Emily's Reasons Why Not
The Book of Daniel There's something about pairing Jesus with a Vicodin-popping Episcopalian priest that creates brouhaha. We expected the Bill O'Reillys of the world to complain (Someday O'Reilly is going to be driven to insanity when he awakens in the Twilight Zone surrounded by nice, sensible people), but apparently many in the Midwest found the subject matter so repellent that stations in places like Terre Haute pulled Daniel from their schedules. Another triumph for the easily offended. Normal-ites should ask a different question: Is The Book of Daniel worth checking out? I'd say it's a flawed but worthwhile experiment. Aidan Quinn makes a very human reverend, a man whose faith in God is directly proportional to the lack of faith he has in himself. D
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In JusticeGenerally, I have an aversion to procedural crime dramas, so why am I digging this mid-season underdog? The writing's decent, and the acting's better than average (I'll forgive Kyle MacLachlan for channeling William Shatner's Denny Crane on Boston Legal), but there's something else. Maybe it's the sympathetic liberal inside of me who thinks there's nothing so unjust as innocent people getting locked up for crimes they didn't commit. Then again, maybe I just get a huge kick out of seeing Curtis Armstrong (aka Booger from Revenge of the Nerds) posing as a public defender! But seriously, this poor man went to prison because an eyewitness made a crucial mistake. Everyone involved with the case assumed the perp was black in fact when he was white. See, t
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Grey's Anatomy Well, you learn a new word every day — now I know what "priapism" means. Interesting that the guy Meredith had a one-night stand with was admitted to the hospital because his erection would not go away, but Alex had the exact opposite problem. Little did Izzie know that Alex's emotional feelings for her were what caused that — since he apparently didn't have the same problem with Olivia. Of course, in true soap-opera style, Izzie just had to walk in on them. Even with a condom, what was Olivia thinking? Alex gave her syphilis — he should be off-limits. But back to Meredith, I loved when Derek found out the erection guy had just been with Meredith. The best line was right before that, when Derek entered the room: "Hello, everybody — what's up?" George's moment wi
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