Mario Lopez and Melissa Joan Hart to star in movie

mariolopez.jpg An ABC family original movie “Holiday in handcuffs” will star Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez. Hart is probably best known for playing the role of Sabrina in the ABC/WB networks “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”, while Lopez recently caught our eye on “Dancing with the Stars”.

Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez will star in the ABC Family original movie “Holidays in Handcuffs.”

The movie will follow Trudie, played by Hart, a would be painter working as a waitress to make a living. After blowing an interview for a real job and disappointing her parents yet again, as well as getting dumped by her boyfriend Trudie suffers a nervous breakdown. Trudie is stressed over the idea of going home for the holidays alone so she kidnaps a customer, Clay Martin – played by Lopez, and plans to bring him home for Christmas to met her family while introducing him as “the one”.

Holiday is scheduled to air in December as part of ABC’s annual 25 days of Christmas programing. The movie will begin principal photography later this month in Calgary Alberta. Ron Underwood, City Slickers, is directing.





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Saddam Hussein Dead

CNN is reporting that Saddam Hussein is Dead. He was hanged at 9:55 pm, daybreak in Iraq. he’d been lead to the gallows as early as 9:30 pm est and reporters were milling about waiting for word as to whether he’d been hung. Word came down at 10:06 pm Friday evening.

The dictator is dead.

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UPDATE:

At approximately 4:10 a.m. December 30th, CNN began airing video tape acquired from Iraq TV of a portion of Saddams hanging.

He was led to the gallows wearing a dark coat, perhaps a suit coat. He was shackled and handcuffed as he shuffled forward awkwardly. He looked calm and resigned to his fate. He was offered a head covering by the gallows men but he refused to wear it. Instead one of the men placed the head covering around Husseins neck somewhat like a scarf, perhaps to protect his skin. A noose was then placed around his neck and tightened. The video froze with Saddam looking straight ahead as he stood on the gallows waiting for the bottom to drop out and be hanged.

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Dreamgirls is a Hit

dream2t.jpg Dreamgirls has lived up to expectations and has taken the box office by storm. The hit movie grossed nearly $9 million in it’s first day in North American Theaters.

The movie is an adaptation of the Broadway hit that was loosely based on the story of Diana Ross and the Supremes. The movie came in second behind Ben Stillers comedy “Night at the Museum” which took in $11.8 million on Monday from four times as many theaters.

“This thing has been generating big numbers from the moment it opened,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of the box office tracking service Media By Numbers.

dreamg.jpg In comparison, the 2002, when the hit movie Chicago made $9.2 million between the Christmas weekend and the week that followed Christmas.

However, the Muhammad Ali boxing drama “Ali” still holds the Christmas day opening making $10.2 million on December 25th 2001.

Dreamgirls managed to score seven nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, and five nominations for the Golden Globes making it a serious contender for the Oscars.

All this before it publically hit a wide array of Theaters throughout the country. The film stars Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Beyonce Knowles, and newcomer Jennifer Hudson.

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