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Stevie Nicks returns with material that harkens back to her glory days. 
human nature provides him with boundless inspiration for his life’s work: creating artificial people. Santoro will play Harlan Bell, Westworld’s perennial “Most Wanted” bandit; Woodward will play Elsie King, a sardonic rising star in the programming division, who’s charged with diagnosing the odd quirks of behaviors in the park’s hosts; Berdal will play Armistice, a savage fighter and brutal bandit, whose ruthlessness with her victims is surpassed only by her abiding loyalty to her fellow outlaws; Sarafyan will play the beguiling Clementine Pennyfeather, one of Westworld’s most popular attractions; and Quarterman will play Lee Sizemore, the narrative director of Westworld, whose inspired storylines consistently delight or terrify the guests.
HBO has its eye on Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch to play two of the three investigators in the second season
Vince Vaughn is in talks to play the central antagonist (not necessarily the villain or murderer – this is a mystery-based series after all) on the second season of HBO's “True Detective,” while “Mad Men” star Elisabeth Moss is being eyed for the female lead and “The Killing's” Michelle Forbes is in contention for a key role on the show, TheWrap has learned.
Colin Farrell is nearing a deal to star, while Taylor Kitsch is the frontrunner to play the younger male lead, as TheWrap first reported.
HBO had no comment on casting decisions.
According to a breakdown obtained by TheWrap, the second season of “True Detective” will follow the death of a corrupt city manager of a fictional California city who's found brutally murdered amid a potentially groundbreaking transportation deal that would forever change freeway gridlock in the state. Three law enforcement officers from different cities and branches of the government are tasked with finding out who did it. They soon discover their investigation has much broader and darker implications than they initially thought.
Vaughn is in talks to play Frank Semyon, a former thug-turned-businessman who's working with a local mayor and his political cohorts to spearhead the construction of a high-speed railway system that links Southern California to Northern California in order to reap financial gains from federal grants and land purchases.
Moss, who recently played a small-town cop in the similarly themed, “Top of the Lake,” is being eyed to play Ani Bezzerides, a tough, no-nonsense Monterey sheriff whose troubled upbringing has driven her to gambling and alcohol.
Farrell is nearing a deal to play Ray Velcoro, who has been damaged by years of turmoil in both his personal and professional lives.
Kitsch is angling for the role of Paul Woodrugh, a handsome, 28-year-old military veteran who has seen his own share of violence and destruction. Forbes, who starred on the first season of “The Killing,” has been rumored for a part on “True Detective,” and it's possible she could play either Farrell's ex-wife (a survivor of sexual assault) or Vaughn's charming but mercurial wife.
TheWrap previously reported that the second season of “True Detective” would feature three leads — two men and one woman — while series creator Nic Pizzolatto has said there will be four leads. While the three investigators are clearly the leads, it's understandable why Pizzolatto often referred to the season's primary antagonist as a fourth lead — he was writing the role with movie star Vaughn in mind, which explains the discrepancy in semantics.
Pizzolatto is still fine-tuning the script as HBO searches for multiple directors to tackle the second season. Cary Fukunaga directed every episode of the first season, but HBO does not expect a filmmaker to commit to the entire second season, and is looking to hire several directors for multiple episodes — possibly two or three apiece.
Andrew Dominik was one of the filmmakers that HBO is rumored to have approached. But it's believed he's too busy prepping the Marilyn Monroe movie “Blonde,” which will star Jessica Chastain, who already passed on the female lead in “True Detective.”
Vaughn has been looking to do something darker than his typical comedic fare, and “True Detective” certainly fits that bill. He is represented by CAA and his potential casting was first reported by TV Line.
For its part, HBO has not commented on any “True Detective” speculation thus far.
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Katherine Heigl Talks ‘Grey's Anatomy’ Exit: ‘My Priorities Were Messed Up’
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Actress says she was putting too much energy into work, as she prepares for her return to the small screen
Stop the presses; Katherine Heigl has admitted fallibility.
The Emmy-winning actress — who gained fame and acclaim playing Dr. Izzie Stevens on the ABC medical drama “Grey's Anatomy” — is discussing her 2010 exit from the series. Heigl admitted that she was “messed up” in the time leading up to her departure. Or at least her priorities were.
“I felt like my priorities were messed up,” Heigl, who has two adopted daughters with her husband Josh Kelley, told Good Housekeeping. “I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.”
“I would come home angry and frustrated that I'd missed everything with my kid that day,” she continued. “I didn't get to wake her up from her nap, or do bath time or bedtime. I'd have to sneak into her room and kiss her when she was sleeping, hoping not to wake her up
Heigl's career has since experienced its rough patches, a fact that she blamed on her decision to focus on big screen romantic comedies during a recent interview with Marie Claire UK. The actress is slated to return to the small screen in the NBC drama “State of Affairs,” which Heigl stars as a CIA attache.
But won't the return to television increase her workload and lead, perhaps, to a re-mussing up of her priorities?
Perhaps not, now that she, Kelley and their daughters live in the relatively tranquil environs of Utah.
“Utah is spectacularly beautiful, the people are wonderful and kind, it's an easy commute from L.A. — and there's no traffic!” Heigl enthused.
Presumably, there are a lot fewer actresses with misplaced priorities there as well.
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Channing Tatum, Diego Luna Vie for Zoe Saldana's Heart in Stunning New ‘Book of Life’ Trailer
“Come at me bro,” goads Tatum
Channing Tatum and Diego Luna compete for Zoe Saldana‘s affections to hilarious ends in the new trailer for “The Book of Life,” 20th Century Fox's forthcoming Day of the Dead-inspired animated adventure.
Our hero Manolo (played by Luna) is desperately in love with Maria (Saldana) and quite literally dead-set on winning her heart. ”I'll do anything to be with Maria,” he says. And with a snap of the fingers, some sketchy wizard transports him to The Land of the Remembered.
Manolo has been turned into a Day of the Dead-style skeleton. He can't believe his eye sockets.
Director Jorge R. Gutierrez and producer Guillermo Del Toro created an awesome, stunningly animated world. One that's rich in both mythology and modern humor.
“Come at me bro,” says Joaquin, Tatum's beefy, dopey avatar. Joaquin is vying for Maria's affections, too and even gives her an autographed picture… of himself.
“I'm speechless,” she says, annoyed.
“Yeah, right?” he responds, oblivious to her tone. “I get that a lot.”
“The Book of Life,” which also stars the voices of Ron Perlman, Christina Applegate, Ice Cube and even Placido Domingo, hits theaters Oct. 17.
Larry David to Make Broadway Debut
The "Seinfeld" co-creator and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star will act in a play that he wrote.
Larry David is coming to Broadway.
The actor-comedian best known as the co-creator of Seinfeld and star of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm will star in a play that he wrote called Fish in the Dark, according to a report in the New York Times.
The play, which is set to run at a Shubert theater starting March 5, is a comedy about a death in the family, with roughly 15 characters, and he would be playing someone similar to himself, perhaps just himself with a different name, David told The Times.
David, who had written the play and had thought it would be cool to do so if he ever had an idea, didn't originally intend to act in it but producer Scott Rudin convinced him otherwise.
“I didn’t really want to do it, but, I mean, do you know Scott? He’s a very persuasive fellow, and I give him a lot of credit for that,” David said. “I had been prepared to just go to some rehearsals as the writer, watch quietly, say a few words, then go to a few performances and pace around the back of the theater, give some notes, pace some more. But now this. Something has gone awry."
He was inspired to write the play by the death of a friend's father but his last experience with acting in a play was many years ago.
“I haven’t been in a play since the eighth grade, when I did Charley’s Aunt. I seem to remember wearing a dress. That’s it. And I’m not even really an actor. But I’m still sleeping at night, and I hope that continues," David said, touching on his apprehension about appearing onstage.
Fish in the Dark will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, who has worked with Rudin on This is Our Youth, which begins Broadway performances on Aug. 18, and the Tony-nominated Chris Rock starrer The Motherf—er With the Hat. Shapiro won a 2008 Tony Award for staging August: Osage County.
As for Curb Your Enthusiasm, David indicated a new season of the HBO series isn't coming any time soon, in keeping with his recen...t the show.
"I’m not going to mentally do that to myself right now,” he said. “But if I did do another season, this play would push that schedule back.”.
Emmys: Cicely Tyson Reflects on Her Legacy, Race in Hollywood and Breaking Down Barriers
The best actress in a miniseries or movie Emmy contender also tells THR how she feels about being a hero and inspiration to many women of color in Hollywood, from Viola Davis to Kerry Washington.
This story first appeared in a special Emmy issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
At 80 years old, Cicely Tyson recently became one of the oldest people to win an acting Tony, for her 2013 performance as Ms. Carrie Watts in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful -- a production featuring the play's first-ever all-black cast. Then she earned an Emmy nomination for the same role in Lifetime's TV movie adaptation of the 1940s-set story about an elderly Texas woman (Tyson) who wants to travel back to the small town where she grew up. Here, she reflects on her incredible year -- during which she joined a small and elite group of actors who have been Tony- and Emmy-nominated for the same character -- the kismet of landing the Bountiful role and how she feels about being a professional mentor to so many women of color in Hollywood.
In the 1970s, through projects like the film Sounder and the TV productions The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots, you were instrumental in changing the way that blacks are portrayed on screen…
It has always been my mission to get people to understand that we are also human, that we are human beings with all the nuts and bolts of being human. That has always been my premise. I deal with every character on a humanistic face, because that’s what we are—we all feel the same things and think the same things, whether we want to admit that or not. Why we should be treated differently simply because of the color of our skin is far beyond me.
After those early projects, did you have a desire to break away from parts pertaining to the black experience and instead play roles that could have gone to a white actress?
I have to tell you, there was so much going on at that time that was projecting negative images of black women that my mission was to change that. I said, “Yes, we have drug addicts, and prostitutes and low-lifes, but we also have doctors, lawyers and teachers, and we have women who are just mothers to their children and wives to their husbands that have decency about who they are and what they are and why they are on the face of this earth.” And so I didn’t feel that I could afford the luxury of doing anything else.
The role of Ms. Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful is one you wanted to play for a long time, right?
In 1985 I was wandering around Hollywood and saw Geraldine [Page]’s name on the marquee. I absolutely adored her, but I had no idea what The Trip to Bountiful was about—I hadn’t ever read it, I hadn’t seen it on television, I just was not familiar with it—so I just went into the theater to see her. And I walked out, got in my car, drove right to my agent’s office and I said to him, “You get me my Trip to Bountiful and I will retire!” He just laughed. But I made a visit to his office every single month, and every time I was there I said, “Where’s my Trip to Bountiful?!” Now, tell me if this is not miraculous: in 2011, I’m sitting in my house; the phone rings; it’s my assistant, and she says, “Van is looking for you.” Van Ramsey is a costume designer whom I have worked with a number of times. He was looking for me because, he told me, he had a friend who wanted to meet with me and talk about a possible project, so we met. She said to me, “My father had such tremendous respect for you. I want to do one of his plays. I’d love to do it with a black cast. And if you say no to the lead, which is what I want you to play, I won’t do it.” So I said to her, “Who was your father?” She said, “Horton Foote,” and I fell off the chair. [laughs] When I could recover I said, “And the play is what?” She said, “The Trip to Bountiful.” Is that something? It was 26 years later!
The show was very well received and you won a Tony. What did you think when you were approached about doing it again for film?
I said, “That’s impossible.” My agent said, “What do you mean?” I said, “I can’t do a movie of it. You can do what you want, but I can’t do it.” He said, “What are you talkin’ about?” I said, “I finally got myself to the place—by doing vocal exercises and stuff like that—where I could reach the last seat in the balcony. And now you’re asking me to bring all of that back into my navel? Are you kidding me?! That can’t happen—it’ll never happen!” He said, “Oh, you’ll be alright.” Well, it wasn’t easy for me, because I had to fight to harness what I had on the stage and bring it down for the small screen.
What are your thoughts on films for theaters versus films for TV?
I was talking to a friend of mine the other evening who has a movie that she’s interested in having me do, and she said, “I’m not interested in doing it on television.” I said, “I’ll tell you one thing: I was upset that Jane Pittman was not done as a movie in theaters.” I said, “I might have been able to have an Oscar in my hands if that was so. However, I’ll tell you, I don’t regret that it wasn’t, because millions of people have seen it, over and over and over again. And that makes me feel good.”
Many black actresses who are enjoying terrific careers, from Viola Davis to Kerry Washington, credit you as a real inspiration. How does that make you feel?
I could not be happier. If, in fact, I have, in some way, been the inspiration for any of them, I will feel that I have accomplished what I set out to do, and that is to break the mold and the concept that limited people’s vision of what we, as black women, or black actresses, could do in this business.
There are also two previously unreleased numbers from the Family Stone’s appearance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival; the previously released songs from the Festival are included, as well. And the early singles, through 1969’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” are all presented in mono.
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Even so, for what’s worth Mellencamp never became a true critic’s darling and to this day he’s still only won a single Grammy award (Best Rock Vocal Performance for “Hurts So Good”). The artist himself stated some years ago on a VH-1 special, “It’s never been cool to like John Mellencamp.” If the album cuts weren’t quite as consistent on 1987’s “The Lonesome Jubilee,” the rustic Appalachian folk elements that peppered the album made an impact. “After I did that, there were thousands of bands with accordions and violins,” Mellencamp told Rolling Stone, in his comments for the album’s lead-off track, “Paper in Fire” (“the ultimate John Mellencamp song,” he claims). Other signature hits included “Check it Out,” bolstered by an unforgettably wistful instrumental hook, and the deeply nostalgic “Cherry Bomb.” 
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