TV Guide: Stockard Channing

Listing: 2162 Votes

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 09:00 AM BRAVO As the sixth season concludes, the Democrats finally nominate their presidential candidate, but not before the candidates' machinations rivet the nation. Meanwhile, the White House is vexed by the space-station air leak, which could kill three astronauts. And by a press leak about a secret military shuttle, which could save them. Trouble is, it violates international law, and Bartlet can't admit that the U.S. has it. Baker: Ed O'Neill.

Listing: Things Fall Apart

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 08:00 AM BRAVO As the GOP nominates Vinick, Russell offers Santos the VP slot. Not that it's Russell's to offer. And while Santos mulls it, Bartlet enlists Leo to keep the party's presidential stalemate from turning chaotic. Meanwhile, an international space station is leaking oxygen, but a rescue will be more complicated than it might seem to be; and Bartlet catches “Charles” leaving Zoey's bedroom at 1 am.

Listing: A Good Day

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 22 08:00 AM BRAVO The House speaker (Steven Culp) won't schedule a stem-cell bill while Democratic campaigners are in town, so Santos plans a ruse. And Bartlet has an unwanted reunion with the economist (Mako) with whom he split the Nobel prize. The two are professional rivals and don't like each other. Meanwhile, Toby is charmed by a group of youngsters who are demanding the right to vote, and Kate Harper (Mary McCormack) must deal with a “border skirmish” with Canada.

Listing: The Wake Up Call

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 20 09:00 AM BRAVO Iran mistakes a British airliner for a U.S. spy plane and shoots it down, and the feisty British PM sees red. Bartlet's initial response would have been more cautious, but he was asleep when the crisis broke, and C.J. was under Abbey's orders not to awaken him. Meanwhile, Toby and a constitutional-law expert (Christopher Lloyd) must explain the U.S. constitution's peculiarities to a delegation from Belarus that asks for help in writing its own founding document. Lord John Marbury: Roger Rees.

Listing: Red Mercury

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:30:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 05:30 PM SHO2e

Listing: 365 Days

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 09:00 AM BRAVO It's the day after Bartlet's last State of the Union address, and a hostage crisis erupts in Bolivia that drives staffers away from a meeting with an ambiguous agenda, called by Leo. Meanwhile, House Democrats have bad news about an earned-income tax-credit initiative; and Annabeth (Kristin Chenoweth) has to tutor Abbey on proper NASCAR etiquette.

Listing: Faith Based Initiative

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Thu Oct 16 09:00 AM BRAVO As rumors swirl around Washington that C.J. is a lesbian, a crusty GOP senator attaches a rider that would ban gay marriage to the federal budget. Meanwhile, Santos (Jimmy Smits) considers Josh's proposal; and Abbey and staffers assess the president's medical condition. “We're all going to have to be ready for anything, every day,” she says. Russell: Gary Cole. Hoynes: Tim Matheson. Bradley Whitford wrote the script.

Listing: Impact Winter

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0400

Thu Oct 16 08:00 AM BRAVO In China, an impaired Bartlet is having difficulty sitting through meetings. Literally. And in Washington, a NASA functionary warns that an asteroid could strike earth. But Donna wants to talk to Josh about her future anyhow. As for Josh's future, he's candidate-shopping. Santos: Jimmy Smits.

Listing: Up Close & Personal

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:30:00 -0400

Wed Oct 15 01:30 PM SHOe

Listing: The Matthew Shepard Story

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 12 12:00 PM LMN

Video: The Business of Strangers

iTunes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:31:06 -0400

The feature debut of writer and director Patrick Stettner, The Business of Strangers is a taut indie drama about a successful businesswoman and her new assistant stuck overnight in an airport hotel, locked into a subtle game of control and manipulation. A bristling fugue on power infused with a dark humor, the film stars Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles and Frederick Weller. With tightly drawn characters and textured performances, this IFC Film drama explores the constantly shifting balance of power between the middle-aged executive and the headstrong young woman, as they strive to gain the upper hand over the course of the night. On her way from the airport to a high stakes presentation, corporate climber Julie Styron (Stockard Channing) gets a call on her mobile phone that her firm s C.E.O. is flying in for an unexpected meeting with her. Anticipating the worst, she immediately sets up a preemptive meeting with headhunter Nick Harris (Frederick Weller) to line up her next position. After wrapping up a botch

Video: 7A WF 83429

iTunes — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:30:40 -0400

As the White House reels from the kidnapping of Zoey (recurring guest star Elisabeth Moss), the youngest daughter of Democratic U.S. President Josiah Edward Bartlet (series star Martin Sheen), the government is temporarily passed from the distraught Bartlet to the Republican party--specifically Speaker of the House Glenallen Walken (recurring guest star John Goodman - "Roseanne," "Barton Fink")--due to the prior resignation of Bartlet's Vice President. First Lady Dr. Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet (series star Stockard Channing) staunchly supports her husband, but the trauma of potentially losing their child forces her to confront Bartlet with the harrowing notion that the crisis was the direct result of the assassination of a dangerous foreign official he ordered months ago. As always, professorial Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (series star John Spencer) serves as Bartlet's political and emotional buttress. Ever present is highly regarded Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman (series star Bradley Whirford), whose capable a

Video: NSF Thurmont

iTunes — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:27:50 -0400

From his office in the White House, President Josiah Bartlet (series star Martin Sheen) leads the most powerful nation on earth. Directly descended from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, New Hampshire Democrat Bartlet exudes a country-lawyer charisma that complements his brilliance, his deep conviction and his devotion to what he believes is right for the country. A brilliant academician in her own right, first lady Dr. Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet (series star Stockard Channing) staunchly supports her husband but does not hesitate to keep him in line when necessary.As always, professorial Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (series star John Spencer) resolutely serves as Bartlet's political and emotional right hand, while Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman (series star Bradley Whitford) keeps his highly regarded political mind in overdrive. Donna Moss (series star Janel Moloney), Josh's capable assistant, more than holds her own in their friendly verbal sparring. Despite the constant media scrutiny in t

Video: 3 Needles

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:45:11 -0400

Three stories, which offer differing perspectives on the AIDS pandemic, are featured in this anthology-drama. Sister Clara (Chlo Sevigny) is a young nun who is working with two, more experienced, missionaries (Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh) in a village along the African coast. Sister Clara finds herself struggling against ignorance and misinformation among the natives, but discovers she can only accomplish so much through traditional means and is forced to make a great personal sacrifice for the greater good. Denny (Shawn Ashmore) lives in Montreal and makes his living acting in pornographic movies -- a career he's kept hidden from his mother (Stockard Channing), who depends on Denny for financial support. Like most of his colleagues, Denny must present current HIV tests to producers in order to keep working. But unlike most of his fellow porn actors, Denny is actually carrying the AIDS virus, and presents fraudulent test paperwork in order to keep working. And Jin Ping (Lucy Liu) collects blood donations

Video: Bright Young Things

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:39:40 -0400

British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature-film debut with the witty, sophisticated comedy Bright Young Things, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel {-Vile Bodies}. Set in London during the '30s, this stylish period film follows an ensemble cast of well-dressed and highly literate partygoers. Aspiring writer Adam Fenwick-Symes (stage actor Stephen Campbell Moore) loses the manuscript of his first novel when traveling through customs. He then sets out to raise enough money to marry his sweetheart, Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer), the daughter of a colonel (Peter O'Toole). All in the name of love, Adam seeks funding through a constant stream of parties, meetings, and conversations with eccentric acquaintances. Cameo appearances are made by the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Simon Callow, and Stockard Channing. Bright Young Things was shown at the {~2003 Toronto Film Festival}. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide.

Video: Business Of Strangers, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:37:59 -0400

Two women on different ends of the spectrum of corporate power come together with explosive results in this drama. Julie Styron (Stockard Channing) is a successful executive with a major international corporation who is starting to feel the pressure of her position; she has few friends and no family to buffer her from the responsibilities of her work, and she suspects that the company's CEO is thinking about replacing her. Trying to get one step ahead, she meets with the slightly manipulative headhunter Nick Harris (Frederick Weller). Julie's anxieties come to a head when she has to give a major out-of-town presentation without the help of her assistant Paula Murphy (Julia Stiles), who failed to show up on time. Furious, Julie gives Paula a severe dressing down before firing her, but then Julie is called into a meeting with Nick in which she gets some unexpected news -- she's going to be taking over his job. Eager to celebrate, Julie runs into Paula, and tries to apologize for their earlier encounter by offer

Video: Other Voices

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:06:35 -0400

Dan McCormack spins this yuppie nightmare about lost identity, lost love, and New York. Phil (David Aaron Baker) and Anna (Mary McCormack) are a young couple whose marriage is slowly going sour. Each suspects the other of having an illicit affair. Anna shares with her analyst, Dr. Grover (Stockard Channing), that she is seeing another man, while Phil confides in his wildly erratic buddy John (Campbell Scott), that while he suspects Anna is sleeping around, he is engaging in a little extra-marital infidelity himself. Though Dr. Grover is unnerved by how flippantly Anna is treating her dalliances, John suggests that Phil consult with Jordin (Peter Gallagher in an outrageous French accent), one of Gotham's finest private dicks. Soon Phil finds himself jumped by Mink (Ricky Aiello), one of Jordin's goons, and Anna is stalked by her unhinged brother Jeff (Rob Morrow) who is trying to prevent a rendezvous between her and her mysterious lover. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Cro

Video: Moll Flanders

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:26:20 -0400

An orphaned young woman struggles to overcome a difficult childhood and her later experiences as a prostitute in this period drama set in 18th century London. Drawing only loose inspiration from the Daniel Dafoe novel that provided the film's title, writer-director Pen Densham creates a new story surrounding the title character of Moll Flanders (Robin Wright). The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy (Stockard Channing). It is there that Moll first meets Hibble (Morgan Freeman), who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist (John Lynch) who promises the possibility of romantic

Video: Girl Thing, A

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:10:11 -0400

Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life together as she guides four of her patients through personal turmoil. Lauren Travis (Elle MacPherson), a respected lawyer, finds her sexual identity thrown into question when she discovers she's attracted to another woman, Casey (Kate Capshaw). Helen McCormick (Glenne Headly) is forced to spend a week with her two estranged sisters, Kathy (Allison Janney) and Kim (Rebecca DeMornay) after the death of their mother. Nia Morgan (Lynn Whitfield) is convinced her husband is being unfaithful to her; she hires Rachel (Linda Hamilton) to lure her spouse into infidelity, but Rachel learns that Nia's husband is actually involved with Betty (Mia Farrow), an older and unglamorous waitress. And after Dr. Noonan decides she can't handle the deep neuroses of Suzanne Nabor (Camryn Manheim), Suzanne snaps and takes the doctor hostage, along with three other people. It's a Girl Thing also stars Scott Ba

Video: Grease

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:33:49 -0400

Grease, said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, is the word. Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs - Warren Casey Broadway smash into the biggest blockbuster of 1978. 1950s teens Danny (John Travolta) and Australian transfer Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) spend their Summer Nights falling in love, but once fall comes, it's back to Rydell High and its cliques. As one of the bad boy T-Birds, Danny has to act cool for best pal Kenickie (Jeff Conaway) and their leather-clad mates Sonny (Michael Tucci) and Doody (Barry Pearl, in the role Travolta played on stage). Despite befriending Frenchy (Didi Conn), one of the rebel Pink Ladies, virginal Sandy is too pure to be Pink, as the Ladies' leader Rizzo (Stockard Channing) acidly observes. Declaring their devotion in such ballads as Hopelessly Devoted to You and Sandy, Sandy and Danny split, reconcile, and split aga

Video: Married To It

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:44:16 -0400

Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each other through their marriage difficulties. Claire (Cybill Shepherd) and Leo (Ron Silver) are a wealthy couple having trouble with a daughter from a previous marriage. John (Beau Bridges) and Iris (Stockard Channing) are a couple from the '60s who have weathered a relationship involving sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Chuck (Robert Sean Leonard), a securities analyst, and Nina (Mary Stuart Masterson), a child psychologist, are newlyweds needing guidance through the pitfalls of married life. The couples meet on a committee formed at a PTA meeting. They find they like each other and invite each other to dinner parties. As they meet and talk with one another, they reveal their problems and help each other. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide.

Video: Isn't She Great

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:41:19 -0400

Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off until she quit acting to write her first novel. Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters matched up to which real-life show-biz figures. Susann wrote several other successful novels, but fame and fortune didn't make her life any less tumultuous; she had well-publicized problems with drugs and alcohol and a series of free-wheeling affairs, although she stayed with her husband Irving Mansfield until her death in 1974 at the age of 56. Isn't She Great is a screen biography that focuses on Susann's roller-coaster literary career, with Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as Mansfield; David Hyde Pierce, Stockard Channing, John Cleese, and Sarah Jessica Parker round out the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Applegates, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:15:25 -0400

The Applegates is the video title for the darkly satirical comedy Meet the Applegates. The titular family, for all intents and purposes human beings, are actually a clan of giant Brazilian Cocorada bugs. Paterfamilias Dick Applegate (Ed Begley Jr.) takes a job with an Ohio nuclear power plant, with the intention of triggering an explosion, thereby exterminating all humankind and allowing the bugs to live in safety. Alas, every one of the Applegates falls victim to assimilation: Dick becomes a typical suburban philanderer, his wife Jane (Stockard Channing) succumbs to the seductions of the credit card, and the Applegate kids transform into obnoxious mall-cruising teens. By the time the Applegates' Aunt Bea (Dabney Coleman) links up with them to supervise the nuclear explosion, the family considers Auntie a nuisance and plots a fitting demise for her. Director Michael Lehmann had previously skewered upper-middle class values in Heathers; completed in 1989, Meet the Applegates buzzed into local cineplexes in 199

Video: Six Degrees Of Separation

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:09:30 -0400

Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Manhattan's upper crust. The Kittredges are entertaining friends one evening when a young black man named Paul (Will Smith) appears at their door. Paul says that he's a close friend of their children, with whom he attended boarding school, and he's just been mugged and needs to get off the street for a moment. Flan and Ouisa invite him in, and they are immediately taken by Paul's intelligence and charm; he offers to prepare dinner, regales them with stories about his father, Sidney Poitier, and ends up spending the night at their apartment. However, the next morning Flan and Ouisa discover that they've been had; Paul is actually a con artist from the streets who has been pulling the wool over the eyes of many of thei

Video: To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:05:50 -0400

Patrick Swayze plays Vida Boheme, a classy and long-reigning drag queen. With his understudy Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida wins a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) cries at having lost the contest, soft-hearted Vida cashes in the airline tickets so the three of them can take a car out West. The film becomes a strange sort of buddy road movie, with the three cross-dressers traveling across the American heartland in a shiny yellow Cadillac. First they tangle with Sheriff Dollard (Chris Penn). He stops them for a minor traffic violation, puts the moves on Vida, and Vida knocks him out, so they flee. Later, they are stranded by car problems in a small town in Nebraska. Renting a room in a hotel, they put some life into the town and its annual strawberry festival. They provide a mousy local woman, Carol Ann (Stockard Channing), with new role models of assertiveness. They also insist on chivalrous treatment from the local

Video: Where The Heart Is

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:03:58 -0400

Pregnant 17-year-old Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) runs away from her Tennessee home toward the bright lights of California, accompanied by her boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickins (Dylan Bruno). But Willy gets cold feet and abandons her at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, OK. Novalee's life savings amount to $5.55, so she moves into the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night and venturing out during the day. With the help of the eccentric Sister Husband (Stockard Channing), and Lexie Coop (Ashley Judd), a nurses' aide, Novalee tries to get her life in order for the sake of her expected child, Americus Nation. Based on a novel by Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is also features Keith David, Joan Cusack, Richard Nance, and Heather Kafka. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Practical Magic

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:52:09 -0400

Griffin Dunne directed this romantic fantasy adapted from the 1995 Alice Hoffman novel about the Owens family of witches, regarded as outcasts in the town where they live. Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing) and her sister Aunt Jet (Dianne Wiest) tried to pass on practical magic skills to their nieces, subdued Sally (Sandra Bullock) and fiery Gillian (Nicole Kidman), brought up by the two aunts after their parents died. The aunts concoct spells for the lonely and the lovelorn, but the family's use of witchcraft unfortunately invokes a curse that spells doom to the family's menfolk. Denying her powers, Sally attempted to lead a life minus magic. Her marriage to fish merchant Michael (Mark Feuerstein) brought two daughters -- and Michael's death. Moving into the aunt's seaside mansion, the widowed Sally warns the aunts not to influence her daughters. Sally intervenes when Gillian suffers at the hands of her abusive Bulgarian boyfriend Jimmy (Goran Visnic), and Arizona detective Gary Hallet (Aidan Quinn), investiga

Video: Jack

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:45:23 -0400

An adolescent who is sorting out his new sexual feelings is less than comforted by the example of his immediate family in this coming-of-age comedy drama. Jack (Anton Yelchin) is a boy in his early teens who is rolling headlong into puberty and trying to make sense of his feelings about girls, which are making themselves known at a less than opportune moment. Jack's parents, Paul (Ron Silver) and Anne (Stockard Channing), have just announced they're getting a divorce, which coincides with Paul's decision to come out as a gay man and move in with his boyfriend. Jack is certain his family has gone crazy, and tries to find suitable role models in his friends' families, although he soon discovers they have more than their share of their own troubles to deal with. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Batman Beyond: The Movie

Video Detective — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:52:22 -0400

In this pilot film for the Batman Beyond television series (which aired as a two-part episode), Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy) has become too old for super heroics and has hung up his bat suit for good. However, a young man named Terry McGinnis (Will Friedle) wants to avenge the death of his father, which he believes was caused by the new head of Wayne Industries. After he does a bit of digging, McGinnis discovers Bruce Wayne's long-held secret and takes Bruce's suit out of mothballs to become the new Batman, with a new complement of high-tech gadgets at his disposal. Boasting a futuristic look inspired by Japanese anime, Batman Beyond also features appearances from Stockard Channing as the new Commissioner Gordon and Teri Garr as Mary McGinnis, Terry's mom. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: On This Day: February 13

iVillage — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:15:05 -0400

The very first public school in the United States opened, and Stockard Channing, Jerry Springer and Mena Suvari were born.

Photo: Matt Dillon, Bill Murray, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards and Stockard Channing - The "Wild Things" Los Angeles premiere, March 6, 1998

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Matt Dillon, Bill Murray, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Stockard Channing

Photo: Out of Practice - Christopher Gorham as "Ben", and Stockard Channing as "Lydia"

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Out of Practice, Christopher Gorham, Stockard Channing

Photo: Out of Practice - Stockard Channing and Lisa Banes

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Out of Practice, Stockard Channing, Lisa Banes

Photo: Out of Practice - Stockard Channing as "Lydia", Henry Winkler as "Stewart"

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Out of Practice, Stockard Channing, Henry Winkler

Photo: The West Wing - Stockard Channing as "Abigail Bartlett"

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Photo: Stockard Channing and John Spencer - Nov. 2005

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Stockard Channing, John Spencer

Photo: Henry Winkler, Paula Marshall, Jennifer Tilly, Ty Burrell, Stockard Channing and Christopher Gorham - 2006 TCA Winter Press Tour Party

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Henry Winkler, Paula Marshall, Jennifer Tilly, Ty Burrell, Stockard Channing, Christopher Gorham, 2006 TCA Winter Press Tour Party

Photo: Sam Waterston & Stockard Channing - 8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

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Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing

Photo: Out of Practice - Christopher Gorham, Paula Marshall, Henry Winkler, Stockard Channing, and Ty Burrell

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Out of Practice, Christopher Gorham, Paula Marshall, Henry Winkler, Stockard Channing,Ty Burrell

Photo: Out of Practice - Barry Bostwick, Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, and Henry Winkler

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Out of Practice, Barry Bostwick, Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Henry Winkler

Photo: Out of Practice - Stockard Channing and Henry Winkler

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Out of Practice, Stockard Channing, Henry Winkler