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Ryan Murphy Confirms Javier Bardem on Glee

Javier Bardem may have jumped the gun last week when he announced that he would “rock the house” on a season two episode of Glee , since both 20th Century Fox and Cory Monteith hadn’t yet heard about the casting coup, but now creator Ryan Murphy is confirming the rumor: “[That’s] something we’ll probably do in the first half of the season.” As for the possibility that Murphy will reunite with his other Oscar-winning _Eat, Pray, Love_star, he said, “No, Julia [Roberts] will not be doing the show.” [ Access Hollywood ]

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Ryan Murphy Confirms Javier Bardem on Glee

From Gayle to Ebert: Casting the Oprah Biopic

“Poison pen” biographer Kitty Kelley struck gold with her latest unauthorized biography, that of #1 mortal Oprah Winfrey, and Deadline is reporting the inevitable (but still titillating!) news of an upcoming TV biopic adaptation . The art of the TV biopic is sorely maligned, and I hold the naive belief that a decent Oprah biography could redeem the canon of Lifetime-ready Dana Plato and Nadia Comaneci yarns. Quick, let’s cast this epic while we still have time to influence the filmmakers (and persuade notable actors to withstand the real Oprah’s disapproval).

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From Gayle to Ebert: Casting the Oprah Biopic