LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Mary Tyler Moore will guest-star in the NBC comedy-drama "Lipstick Jungle," which is returning for a second season in the fall.
The television icon will appear in multiple episodes as a retired high-powered executive and mother of Brooke Shields' studio-head character Wendy. Having trail-blazed for working women, Moore's character will challenge Wendy's idealistic notion of "having it all."
"I'm fortunate to have had a front row seat to the evolution of working women on television," said Moore. "It's been great fun to watch the strong female characters of 'Lipstick Jungle' go at it week after week. I absolutely adore Brooke and I'm delighted to be a part of a show which is so well written."
The modestly rated series, based on the best-selling book by Candace Bushnell ("Sex and the City"), also stars Kim Raver as the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, and Lindsay Price as a designer.
Moore will debut in the show's September 24 second season premiere. She is best known for starring in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which earned 29 Emmys during its seven-year run during the 1970s.
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French 'Bait' lures producers
Eisner, Peyronnet, Milchan to redo 1995 thriller
A trio of prominent producers are banding together to make an English-language version of the 1995 French thriller "The Bait."
Eric Eisner, Aimee Peyronnet and Alexandra Milchan will produce the U.S. film, based on Bertrand Tavernier's movie about a young couple whose seemingly foolproof criminal plans go awry. The group has attached Matthew Cirulnick, the scribe on Spyglass' upcoming graffiti drama "Vandals," to write the screenplay.
"Bait," released in France as "L'appat," revolves around a woman, her boyfriend and his friend who come up with a plan to rob the houses of wealthy married men by using the woman as "bait" -- that is, having her seduce the men -- but whose plan quickly leads to missteps and murder.
The project continues a trend of U.S. producers redoing foreign hits in English. "The Departed" was a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong action film "Infernal Affairs," while Universal/Imagine and the Weinstein Co. are developing remakes of Michael Haneke's "Cache" and "The Lives of Others," respectively.
Like those films, the setting and time will be changed in the U.S. version. The original, based on a true story, was set in Paris in the 1980s; the new movie will be set in contemporary New York.
"This is a film about people facing moral dilemmas as they try to move ahead in society, so it transcends cultures," Eisner said, adding that the wealth -- and wealth gaps -- of New York make it an appropriate setting.
Eiser's L&E Prods. will produce with Peyronnet's Wild Child and Milchan's Emjag banners. The project was acquired from French shingle Little Bear.
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"Hopefully after we get through this adoption it will be easier for other people to adopt children and I'm happy to be the guinea pig." MADONNA is glad her adoption of Malawian tot DAVID BANDA will set a precedent for others.
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