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Lisa’s Entertainment Report
Email me at lisa@wa1a.com
• The Hangover's Zach Galifianakis will be honored as the comedy star of the year at the annual ShoWest convention of theater owners, which opens March 15th in Las Vegas. Galifianakis' Hangover co-star Bradley Cooper took home the honor last year.
• Felicity's Keri Russell may be headed back to TV. Russell, who was last seen on the big screen opposite Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser in Extraordinary Measures, is in talks to star alongside Will Arnett in the Fox comedy Wilde Kingdom. The series stars Arnett as a wealthy, self-centered Beverly Hills playboy who falls for a selfless humanitarian (Russell) who hates his lifestyle.
• Also headed back to TV is The West Wing's Jimmy Smits. Smits will star in a drama pilot for NBC, playing a by-the-book Supreme Court Justice who leaves the bench to go into private practice and fight constitutional injustices.
• Miss Guided's Judy Greer will star alongside Numb3rs' David Krumholtz in the Fox comedy pilot Tax Man, which follows the goings-on at a Fresno, CA, branch of the IRS. Greer will play a former Morgan Stanley secretary, nicknamed the Terminator, who joins the branch.
• Crossing Jordan's Jerry O'Connell will star alongside Jim Belushi in the CBS drama Defenders, about two defense attorneys in Las Vegas who go all out for their clients.
• The Office's John Krasinski is in talks to star alongside Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin in the romantic comedy Something Borrowed. The film stars Goodwin as a Manhattan attorney who falls in love with her best friend's fiancé on her 30th birthday. Kraskinski will play Goodwin's friend and confidant.
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