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Hot off her turn on the season of fifl fifth Dancing With the Stars," Jennie Garth has been tapped as the female lead on the CBS nilot "Mv Best Friend's Girl." fcXIoiIMr PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID Also joining "Girl" is Eric Ladin. "Girl" centers on two best friends and co-owners of a biker shop whose relationship becomes com ECRWSS GREENWOOD, SC PERMIT NO 348 GREENWOOD, S.C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008 rncc CHun wttis. plicated when one (Tim Peper) begins dating the ex-wife (Garth) of the other (Josh Cooke). Ladin will play a guy described as "the world's worst salesman," who works at the shop.

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sigourney Weaver and J.K. Simmons are joining actor Tim Allen in his directorial debut, the ex-con comedy "Crazy on the Outside." Allen will play a newly j. lpstmX i i i i released prisoner who tries to persuade his single-mom parole officer (TriDDlehorn) to Vj 1 "iiiigi af" date him. His struggle to rebuild his life is further complicated by a loving but manipulative older sister (Weaver) and her sarcastic, taunting husband (Simmons). Clooney r.

i-Vi flu, rith 'Loat, Josh Groban's Aug. 28, 2007, concert in ew: Salt Lake City forms i immmm the basis for "Awake Live," due out May 6, The CDDVD set ft" I Jir v-M will spawn a PBS special scheduled Kir I By Angela Dawson and Peterson Gonzaga ENTERTAINMENT NEWS WIRE After starring in and co-producing the geopolitical thriller "Syriana," and directing and starring in the politically chartred drama "Onnrl Nicrht Mr- --iiTv i MV4 i to air in June. "Awake Live" will feature guest and (rrfd I.lirW fiinrtro appearances by was pesiegea with oners to Angelique Kidjo and Lucia Micarelli. The title i mane omer issue movies, but I the fledgling filmmaker who made his directorial debut in 2002 with the Chuck Barris track will be the first radio single. Groban recently scrapped a South African tour over disputes with the promoter, but will be back in action for a May 12-13 stand at London's Royal Albert Hall.

biopic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" was afraid of getting Dieeonholed. 3 1 gTflTTffiil He spent the summer of 2006 rewriting the script for "Leatherheads," penned by "Sports IUustrated's" Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly, who had meticulously researched the game's early days. Clooney took their premise about a college football star who helps boost the burgeoning professional league by signing on and attracting much-needed publicity, and infused it with fast-paced, witty dialogue reminiscent of films from Hollywood's Golden Age (though the movie is set in See CLOONEY Page S4 With Le drheads," ClooneyT moved away from directing serious issue-movies, as he has done, and "I don't want to be the pretty girl. I just want to dress up and look terrible on TV." Tracey Ullman discussing the characters she plays on "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union," her new sketch-comedy show instead tried out comedy. 1,.