Kathy Griffin
The Defenders (Friday, 8/7c, CBS)
One week before she begins a limited run on Broadway — and let's hope HBO or somebody records THAT show! — the irrepressible Kathy Griffin goes to Las Vegas in a guest shot on this struggling courtroom drama. She is cast to type as a brash insult comic sued for offending one of her audience victims (What, Joan Rivers was busy?) In the subplot, the son of a hotel owner turns to buddy lawyers Nick and Pete for help after he wakes up to find a casino host strangled in a hot tub. What are the odds he's guilty? ...
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Per Variety, Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, Elektra) is penning a remake of The Dirty Dozen for Warner Bros.... Paramount's plan to extend Angelina Jolie's current run in theaters involves cutting the number of screens showing A Mighty Heart in half, a tactic successfully employed with Borat last fall.... Hoping to quell accusations that the country has snubbed the production of Tom Cruise's Valkyrie due to his religious beliefs, the German Federal Film Fund has ponied up $6.5 million toward the drama's $80 million tab.
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Commander in ChiefBecause apparently nothing ever goes smoothly for Mackenzie Allen, this week the ruler of the free world has to contend with a tell-all book filled to the brim with juicy, might-topple-the-Administration secrets. Uh-oh, kids, looks like we've got us a mole in the White House. (I guess it's hoping for too much to wish Tobias Fünke would attack a mini-replica of Washington dressed up in a big mole suit here, huh? That'll teach me to watch a TiVo'd Arrested Development right before I tune in to LadyPrez & Co. Seriously, though, I'll bet Bob Loblaw could help take care of this little snitch problem tout de suite.)
Meanwhile, Mac's choice for VP finally gets his day before Congress in a potentially disastrous confirmation hearing. All this verbal sparr
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