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Showtime pledges to 'United States' - Entertainment News, TV News, Media
Showtime pledges to 'United States' - Entertainment News, TV News, Media
Network greenlights Spielberg-backed series Showtime has pledged allegiance to "The United States of Tara," greenlighting the Steven Spielberg-backed series. Project, based on an original idea by Spielberg, revolves around an ordinary-seeming wife and mother who suffers from dissociative identity (aka multiple personality) disorder. Diablo Cody ("Juno") penned the half-hour single-camera ...
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Juno You Crazy, Right? [Television]
Gawker — ... The Steven Spielberg-produced, Diablo Cody-written pilot The United States of Tara, about a woman (played by Toni Collette) with multiple-personality disorder, has just been greenlit by Showtime. Hey blogger-bots, that Crazy Cassie has mondo mood McFlurries, if you get my word Windex. ...

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SpoutBlog — Though Universal says they’re still assessing the damage of Sunday’s fire, which destroyed a tape and film print vault/shipping and receiving center, there’s speculation that some of the prints lost may be irreplaceable. “So-called EK prints, struck from the original negatives when the negatives were new and thus irreplaceable, would be among the most valuable prints on Earth.” Director Craig Gillespie is trying to cast his Lars and the Real Girl star Ryan gosling in The Dallas Buyers Club. Gosling would play a real-life AIDS patient circa 1986 who, “frustrated with the ...

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Vulture — ... United States of Tara the green light to series. Oscar winner Diablo Cody (that still feels weird to type) wrote the pilot, the story of a seemingly ordinary housewife, played by Toni Collette, who suffers from multiple personality disorder, and how her family deals with her them. Episode one: Her husband gets sad when he's feeling in the mood but all eleven wives have headaches? Hire us, Diablo Cody! [Variety] ...

The More You Know: Stop ripping off Gilmore Girls CNN!
TiFaux — Kirk had the idea for headline shirts years before you! Here’s another gem Dan missed: My thoughts exactly: Season 4 of Battlestar is getting BORING Tim Gunn worried that 3 seasons of Project Runway in 1 year is too much. I think anything less than 5 is crazy. Michelle Obama to cohost The View June 18th Conservatives give up on complaining over gay kissing 90210 gets a father and a daughter New season of Survivor is 30 days behind schedule Showtime picks up Diablo Cody’s ...

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