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TCM Plans Elizabeth Taylor Tribute, 'Law & Order' Star Gets New Gig and More
by Jean Bentley, posted Mar 23rd 2011 12:55PM
Turner Classic Movies is planning a tribute to honor the late Elizabeth Taylor.On April 10, the channel will air back-to-back movies from the screen legend, including 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' 'Butterfield 8' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' beginning at 6AM.
Taylor died today from congestive heart failure. She was 79.
In other TV news ...
• 'Law & Order' star S. Epatha Merkerson is going from the law to medicine in a new CBS pilot. The actress will play the administrative assistant to Patrick Wilson's surgeon character. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Lauren Graham's Sarah Braverman will get yet another new love interest, this time played by Steven Weber. The actor has booked a guest spot on 'Parenthood''s season finale, with the potential to return next season. [TV Line]
• Soon, Netflix subscribers won't be able to stream current seasons of Showtime series anymore. The network said it will still make past seasons and old shows available. [Deadline]
Without a Trace honored for realism
by Anna Johns, posted Apr 28th 2006 9:51AM
CBS' Without a Trace was among a handful of television
programs awarded for its accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol addiction and tobacco use at the 10th annual Prism
Awards. Kelly Rowan, relapsing alcoholic on The O.C., George Engel of Everybody Loves Raymond, S.
Epatha Merkerson for HBO's Lackawanna Blues, and Lori Loughlin for WB's Summerland all received
acting honors at the awards show, which was sponsored by the Entertainment Industries Council, National Institute on
Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health and the FX Network. The movie, Walk the Line, also received an
award.If Without a Trace is so realistic, maybe it'll win something for that teen sex orgy scene.
Kathleen Turner on Law and Order
by Anna Johns, posted Feb 7th 2006 11:03AM
Unlike her appearances on
Friends, Kathleen Turner will actually play a woman when she appears on tomorrow night's Law and
Order. She'll play Rebecca Shane, a fancy pants defense attorney who faces off against A.D.A. Jack McCoy. She
represents a privileged high school student who may or may not have killed another fellow student in desperation to
graduate.51-year-old Turner currently lives in London, where she is starring in the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Apollo Theatre. She was recently quoted as saying that she's ready to move to London permanently because Americans don't appreciate older women.
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