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Brothers & Sisters Emmy winner Sally Field is attached to play Honest Abe's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, in Steven Spielberg's Liam Neeson-fronted biopic, says Reuters.... Newman! Seinfeld's Wayne Knight is in talks to play The Punisher's confidant and armorer, Microchip, in the big-screen adaptation of the Marvel Comics character.... Studio 60's Sarah Paulson has been cast as Dr. Ellen Dolan in Frank Miller's take on Will Eisner's The Spirit.

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Sep 25, 2007 10:31 AM

This is going to sound horrible... but doesn't Sally Field as Liam Neeson's wife just seem icky? Or am I just a product of Hollywood's double standard system?
Posted by Daesey Sep 25, 2007 12:17 PM Report Abuse

Because we need another Punisher remake so soon after the last one?
Posted by wildbill Sep 25, 2007 3:48 PM Report Abuse

Mary Tyler Moore wonderfully played Mary Todd in a terrific TV movie version of Gore Vidal's Lincoln with Sam Waterston as Abe. Sally and Liam just sounds wrong.
Posted by Buffy Freak Sep 25, 2007 5:22 PM Report Abuse

To me, Julie Harris is the definitive Mary Todd Lincoln, from the Broadway play The Last Of Mrs. Lincoln (the A&E production is out on DVD, by the way), but I can see Field as the loopy Mrs. L. Sounds like good casting.
Posted by TV Gord Sep 27, 2007 2:16 PM Report Abuse

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