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Jessica Lange
Evan Rachel Wood to March with Clooney
Evan Rachel Wood, who recently talked to Esquire magazine about her
bisexuality and how she likes to treat the women she dates (for the record,
ladies, she will open the door for you and pay for dinner), has a new project to
follow her well-received role in Todd Hayne’s great HBO miniseries, Mildred
Pierce. She’ll be appearing in the upcoming directorial effort from George
Clooney, The Ides of March. It’s an idealism-meets-dirty-politics drama
based on the play by Beau Willimon and co-stars some heavy hitters from the
nomination-and-award-having acclaimed actor end of the Hollywood pool: Ryan
Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Clooney himself. If she wasn’t already considered part of the A-list, Wood
certainly is now. Will the next stop be an equally famous girlfriend who’s also
ready to be her date to the Oscars and let Wood hold the door?
Will Kate Hudson be open for Lovelace?
The biopic that was going to star Lindsay Lohan as Linda Lovelace isn’t
happening anymore, but there’s still a push to get the life of the legendary
Deep Throat star on the big screen. Gay filmmakers Robert Epstein and
Jeffrey Friedman, fresh off their triumph of turning James Franco into Allen
Ginsberg in Howl, are prepping Lovelace, rumored to have Kate
Hudson interested in the lead role. The real Lovelace, later in life, said that
she was forced to participate in the film by her then-husband, leading her to
become an outspoken feminist and porn critic, but it remains to be seen what
direction the movie will take with her life. The filmmakers’ previous credits
include The Times of Harvey MilkThe Celluloid Closet, so
they’re good at both biographies and pop-culture histories. Lovelace is
still in pre-production, so no need to pick out a new raincoat just yet. and
Haley Joel Osment sees gay people in Sassy Pants
Oscar nominee and former child star Haley Joel Osment seems to have gone
underground since Pay It Forward, but now he’s 23 and apparently ready
to get back in the game. And what’s the best way for a former kid actor to
firmly establish grown-up credibility? Playing a gay guy in an indie movie, of
course, and that’s exactly what Osment’s doing in Sassy Pants. Osment
and Diedrich Bader (_The Drew Carey Show_, Office Space) play a gay
couple in the comedy, which also features the hilarious Drew Droege. (If you
haven’t seen Droege’s YouTube clips, where he impersonates a name-dropping Chloe
Sevigny or an unhinged Tanya Roberts, you’ve been doing the Internet all wrong.)
Sassy Pants is in post-production, so it could turn up in theaters by
the end of the year. As for Osment, who’s spent most of the last decade doing
video-game voice-over work, kissing a man and getting Sassy might open
up a whole new chapter to his career.
The Horror of Jessica Lange’s latest career move
Jessica Lange’s career-long fear of appearing on a weekly television series
is coming to an end, thanks to horror – specifically, a new job on Ryan Murphy’s
upcoming pilot, American Horror Story. And OK, yes, maybe “fear” is the
wrong word for the Oscar-winner’s lack of presence on the small screen; perhaps
it’s just been plain, old-fashioned disdain all these years. But Lange will now
be co-starring opposite Connie Britton on the spooky drama about – and this is
every shred of plot that’s been made public to date – a therapist, his wife
(Britton) and their nosy neighbor (Lange). After Glee wraps for the
season later this month, production on Horror can begin and, with a
potential series order, soon the scariest stuff we hear about a Ryan Murphy show
won’t be the rumors of diva antics among the cast on the set of his all-singing,
all-dancing high school musical.
Romeo San Vicente always makes it worth his nosy neighbors’ time. He can be
reached care of this publication or at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com.
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