TV Guide: Mary-Louise Parker

VIDEO: Will It Get Ugly for Nancy on Weeds?

TV Guide — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0400

The fourth season of Weeds just ended, but Mary-Louise Parker is already thinking about next season. "I want it to get ugly [between Nancy and Esteban]," the actress tells our own Erin Fox. So does she know what's going to happen? Not exactly. "I just like the surprises. [Creator] Jenji [Kohan] is so amazing and she always surprises me and I love everything that she gives me," Parker says. Check out the video for more from our favorite drug-dealing housewife, including Parker's take on Nancy's parenting skills… or lack thereof.

Closing the Book on The Closer & Weeds

TV Guide — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:18:00 -0400

Feel that change of seasons? Hard not to notice on this Monday night, as two of cable's best summer series- TNT's popular signature drama The Closer and Showtime's quirky classic Weeds- sign off with life-or-death cliffhangers, a week before the official network season gets underway. ( The Closer's story will pick up again in the new year, with five episodes remaining in this split season.)

Dream Cast Tapped for Howl

TV Guide — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:58:00 -0400

An A-List dream gaggle of actors, including David Strathairn, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and Paul Rudd, are attached to join James Franco as Allen Ginsberg in the beatnik biopic Howl.The 1950s-era tale — that hopefully will feature lots of tight black clothes, berets and drum-beating — will focus on the obscenity trial to censor Ginsberg's progressive and controversial book-length poem. The project was pitched by the Allen Ginsberg Trust as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Howl, says The Hollywood Reporter.Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) will executive produce the project that will highlight real-life characters, including prosecuting attorney Ralph McIntosh (Strathairn), Judge Clayton Horn (Alda), prosecution witness Professor David Kirk (Daniels), radio personality and prosecution witness Gail Potter (Parker), and literary critic and defense witness Luther Nichols (Rudd). Telling Pictures documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will m...