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Mary-Louise Parker has built a cult following for her quirky Showtime hit “Weeds.” The show is about a single mom, living a nameless, look-a-like California suburb, who turns to selling pot to help make ends meet. Parker’s character Nancy Botwin’s life is far from bland.
She faces off tough drug dealers, Latin American drug lords, the [...]

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (UPI) — U.S. actress Mary-Louise Parker is to star in a new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler,” the Roundabout Theatre Company has announced.The new version of the celebrated social drama was adapted by Christopher Shinn and will be directed by Ian Rickson.
Preview performances at the American Airlines [...]

Elizabeth Perkins reports her character’s antagonistic relationship with Nancy Botwin, the pot-selling mom played by Mary Louise Parker on “Weeds” “is going to change” as the just-launched new season of the Showtime series unfurls.  “I love it when we’re at odds, because it’s so much fun to play,” says Perkins, who’s garnered two Golden Globe [...]

The Showtime people just took the stage at the TV Critics press tour and brought good news! Showtime boss Bob Greenblatt announced that they’re renewing Weeds for two more seasons of 13 episodes, and we were promised “lots more illicit drugs to come.”
I was lucky enough to talk to Weeds creator Jenji Kohan one-on-one earlier [...]

The little boxes went away in a tidal wave of flames.  Agrestic is no longer the location for Mary Louise Parker’s pot-dealing widowed mom character, Nancy Botwin. She has moved down south to “Ren Mar” where the border beckons ever so seductively. 
 
Showrunner Jenji Kohan revealed her plans at the TCA (Television Critics’ Association) press tour today in [...]

Are you all sitting down?
I have some bad news. Is everybody ready?
I was wrong. I mean I was wrong, wrong, what-has-George Eads-done-to-his-hair? wrong about “Windfall.” At first I thought the show was a fun, frothy summer treat. Then I thought it was so bad it’s good.
And now, sadly, I’ve come to realize that it’s so [...]

No joke: Sarah Silverman is on the Emmy list of Top 10 semifinalists for best comedy actress. Thus “The Sarah Silverman Program” might score a breakthrough bid for Comedy Central after judges review sample episodes and accountants calculate votes. In past years HBO and Showtime were the only cable channels whose stars were nominated in [...]

LOS ANGELES - Albert Brooks’ mordant on-screen neuroticism has lifted his films and characters to comedic heights, with “Defending Your Life,” “Lost in America” and his Oscar-nominated turn in “Broadcast News” among the prime examples.
But it’s difficult to find evidence of personal torment during an interview prompted by Brooks’ guest role on the comedy series [...]

By Shirley Halperin

To be perfectly honest, as season 4 kicked off, I hadn’t given much thought to Weeds‘ secondary characters, like Conrad and Heylia or Doug and Dean. I knew they wouldn’t be around much (or, in some cases, at all), since the focus was shifting to a family on the run, and God [...]

The 62nd Annual Tony Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall last night, and Broadway’s elite was out in their best to celebrate the occasion. We thought Brooke Shields pulled off the “I just had surgery on my foot and can’t wear heels” look very well in a sparkly halter-top jumper.
She’s so tall she [...]