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Fall 2007: Hairspray Headliner Gets Fugly
The latest batch of fall-pilot news, from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety:
• Marissa Jaret Winokur, a Tony winner for Hairspray and a survivor of Stacked, will star in the CBS comedy Fugly, in which three siblings pool their money to give one sister (not Winokur's character) an extreme makeover.
• Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) has joined ABC's Suspect, playing a cop.
• Fred Willard is the sports anchor for Action News, starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton.
• William Baldwin (not Alec and not the DUI one and not the born-again Christian) is a senator in ABC's Dirty Sexy Money.
• Brian Benben (Dream On) is one of NBC's Mastersons of Manhattan.
• The CW has picked up Hell on Earth, about a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who gets a second chance after getting fatally hit by a bus.
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Feb 27, 2007 10:20 AM
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survivor of Stacked LOL You are in rare form today Matt. Thanks for the laughs.
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Feb 27, 2007 10:41 AM
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Re the Baldwins--you forgot Stephen, the Born Again Christian.
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Feb 27, 2007 10:43 AM
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I knew there was another, but I was on deadline. I better get him in there then, thanks!
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Feb 27, 2007 10:58 AM
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