- Get ready for some long-term sitting, Broadway audiences: Robin Williams is in negotiations to make his acting debut on the Great White Way in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. [NYT]
- Demetri Martin has signed on to star, write, and produce a vehicle for himself on CBS. Here’s an Important Thing for Martin: Not using a laugh track, please. [Variety]
- Magnolia Pictures’ Magnet announced via press release that it has acquired rights to the Hayden Christensen- and John Leguizamo-starring Vanishing on 7th Street, a horror film surrounding the misplacement of my friend during a drunken night in the East Village a Detroit power outage.
- Numb3rs star David Krumholtz is joining Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, and James Tupper in Mr. Popper’s Penguins, about a wealthy man who inherits several penguins. Haven’t I seen this movie before? [THR]
- Vh1 will turn the Queen Latifah-produced Single Ladies film into the network’s first scripted dramedy. (No, Vh1′s dearly departed dramedy Rock of Love Bus doesn’t count, because you can’t write lines like: “People who eat basil are lame.”) [Variety]
Oct 19
2010
04:48 PM ET
Excess Hollywood: Robin Williams in talks for Broadway
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Uh, Robin Williams, can’t find work in the movies, so he’s going the route of so many of his ilk: TV and Broadway.
Ilk? Do you mean Oscar, multiple Golden Globe, multiple SAG, MTV, BLOCKbuster, or Saturn award winners? Or was it the Grammey? The philanthropy? The massively sold out comedy tours?
Oh, or his time at Julliard?
Being a scripted work doesn’t make it a debut – he had a one man show on Broadway just recently.
Robin Williams also did “Waiting for Godot” with Steve Martin on Broadway. Don’t think this qualifies as his “debut”.
And the name of the show is “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” That last bit is kindof important.