Timothy Hutton, Leverage
For Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton, agreeing to star in TNT's Leverage wasn't a tough decision — at least not after he read the script.
"It was a real opportunity to play a person who had these awful things happen involving his son and the destruction of his marriage — someone who needed a real breakthrough in their life," Hutton says. "I wondered how this tragedy would manifest itself in him and the choices he would make."
Look back at Hutton's most memorable roles
Hutton plays Nate Ford, the leader of a crack team of cons who use their skills to take from the rich and powerful and give back to those they've wronged. But despite Nate's noble intentions, he hasn't always made the best choices. Case in point: When Season 3 begins (Sunday at 9/8c), Nate is in jail...
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Per Variety, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, whose only previous cinematic scene-sharing was in 1995's Heat, are cops tracking a serial slayer in Righteous Kill.... Felicity Huffman and Bill Pullman have come on board Phoebe in Wonderland, in which a drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) tries to tame a rebellious girl (Elle Fanning).... Jason Bateman will produce and star in The Remarkable Fellows, a buddy comedy based on an outline from the Arrested alum, and concerning two brothers who exact revenge for other people.... Frank E. Flowers (Haven) is writing, with eye to direct, a remake of 1981's Taps.... Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood are set to star in the biopic Bronte.
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When I heard that David S. Goyer was an executive producer of this CSI -The X-Files hybrid, I was pretty juiced. Although best known for Batman Begins and the Blade franchise, Goyer won my heart and mind by reviving (with James Robinson and the ubiquitous Geoff Johns) comics' first and greatest superteam, the almighty Justice Society (or JSA). As far as I'm concerned, anybody who can restore '40s titans like the Golden Age Green Lantern, Flash and Wildcat into 21st-century butt-kickers is definitely a marvel. Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino) could have used the help of all three superheroes to find a military-school cadet determined to spread the alien sonic virus. Gugino handles the team with a cool, human authority, and has the most sensual lips this side of Kelly LeBrock. There was a chilling Children of the Corn aspect to Molly's collision with
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