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Post by -|E|- on Sept 9, 2005 19:41:22 GMT -5
======================================= More big-name stars move from film to TV By Steve Murray COX NEWS SERVICE Friday, September 09, 2005 ATLANTA -- Next season, the networks are seeing stars -- the kind more often seen at the multiplex. <<snip>> "In the past, people saw actors coming to TV as a surrender, rather than a coup for television," he says. "That is what has changed. The writing on TV has become exceptional because the standards have risen to such a high value. That's due to HBO and Showtime having reinvented the wheel on hourlong television. People have lifted up their game." Glenn Close, who finished a season as the new alpha-female captain in the macho sweatshop of FX's "The Shield," won't argue with that. Though she'd appeared in several television films over the years, no one had asked her to join a series until "The Shield's" creator Shawn Ryan gave her a call. "I refused to be a snob about it," she told TV critics this year. "I think, as an actor, I go where the great writing is. And I think that should be the bottom line." <<snip>> Read the full article at The Daily Breeze.======================================= E
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Post by qb on Sept 9, 2005 20:05:35 GMT -5
Glenn Close as the alpha-female! I love that! I really admire Close for not only taking on difficult and diverse roles but totally conquering them!! Only a few of her many films have been less than gems. I wish I could have gone along on the last set visit to see her in person.
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