After Weeds’ seventh season finale ended with a bang— literally— the fate of Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) seemed grim. Actually, the fate of the show itself seemed grim. The finale came and went with no word from Showtime on whether or not the Botwin clan would find a way to worm their way out of trouble once again. Until now. Showtime announced today that they are, in fact, picking up an eighth season of Weeds.
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‘Weeds’ star shakes her ‘tailfeather’
Mary-Louise Parker steamed up Elvis Costello’s concert at United Palace on Saturday night. After inviting the “Weeds” actress onstage to twirl the “spinning songwheel” that determined part of his set, Costello invited the actress to ”shake” her “tailfeather” in the go-go cage onstage as he played “Monkey to Man.” Parker suggested the enclosure needed a blast of “sanitizer,” but then got inside to display some seriously sultry dance moves.
(Source: New York Daily News)
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“In July 2008, afterellen.com reported that Mary-Louise Parker said that she, her costar Mary Stuart Masterson, and screenwriter (and original novel author) Fannie Flagg were all strong advocates for depicting in the film the lesbian relationship between Ruth and Idgie that had appeared in the book, but the director, Jon Avnet, and the producers of the film chose instead to excise the romance and just make the two characters into friends. In the DVD extras, Avnet does say that he considered Idgie and Ruth’s food fight scene in the movie as an analogy for a love scene between the two that he chose not to include.”
Youuuuuuuuuu bastard. Complete and utter
