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Grace Hanadarko is a party girl compared to her sister Rhetta on TNT's Saving Grace.

Remember the scene in the movie "Broadcast News" when Albert Brooks plays a nervous newscaster with a sweating problem? It's played for laughs in the movie, but in real life, not cool.

IN HER first scene in her first television series, Holly Hunter sits, buck naked, astride a man who is married but not to her character.

TNT caters to difficult women. Holly Hunter plays an alcoholic, oversexed detective on 'Saving Grace.' On 'The Closer' Kyra Sedgwick is a self-centered, overbearing deputy police chief with a secret craving for sweets.

Name: William Hurt Nomination: Best Actor in a Suppporting Role, A History of Violence Born: March 20, 1950 in Washington, D.C. Family: Married to Heidi Henderson and Mary Beth Hurt .

Holly Hunter doesn't take roles based on what she thinks viewers want to see. Holly Hunter plays a tough detective grappling with issues of faith in TNT's "Saving Grace." "I have, frankly, very few expectations when it comes to audience," the acclaimed actress said.

"What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff," says Holden Caulfield in the literary masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye .

I am - " Hercules!! Jack Nicholson, who won two Oscars acting in the James L. Brooks films "Terms of Endearment" and "As Good As It Gets," may be joining Brooks' untitled new dramedy as the father of Paul Rudd's character.

Therea TMs the always-fabulous Emma Thompson as poor good-girl Elinor Dashwood, the sensible sister as opposed to Kate Winsleta TMs tempestuous loves-to-walk-even-when-ita TMs-raining Marianne.

The multi-talented James L Brooks has proven to be a force in television and films since the late 1960s.

James L. Brooks was born in Brooklyn on May 9, 1940. He started out as a writer for CBS News and became a story editor and co-creator of the series "Room 222." Among the TV shows he has produced or co-produced are the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Rhoda," "Taxi" and "The Simpsons." Brooks has won a number of Emmys.

Possibly! According to Vulture hero Jeffrey Wells, the latest film from Judd Apatow has screened twice and everyone who's seen it is bubbling over with enthusiasm.

With the opening today of "State of Play," the world has yet another chance to see how Hollywood sees journalists.

William Hurt has joined the cast of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood , a film starring Russell Crowe as the medieval outlaw hero.

Did you ever see Broadcast News - and the scene where Albert Brooks is giving info to Holly Hunter for the nightly newscast over the phone? He's bitter because he's not the anchor; William Hurt is.

A valuable space shuttle on loan to Britain is being transported via the air, of course, when things take a turn for the worse, and the plane crashes into the ocean.

The host of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon answers his critics and talks about adjusting to late-night pressures By Ben Grossman -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/6/2009 12:00:00 AM MT Jimmy Fallon and everyone else in television knew the early episodes of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon were going to be pored over by critics everywhere.

William Hurt was talking about his recent trip to Chiang Mai, where one afternoon he told his driver to stop on a dirt road so he could stroll around a village market on the city's outskirts.

Petite, fiery, and altogether confident, Holly Hunter was an Academy Award-winning actress and producer who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with a string of roles in challenging and critically acclaimed films.

The textbook model of "sensitive leading man," Oscar-winning actor William Hurt was a major player in 1980s cinema.