John Travolta planned to star.
"I heard about several ideas that were on the table -- including a pop-star version by Spike Lee that was planned to star Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera -- but I was not involved," he said.
Nathan Lane, right, who had originally planned to star in Terrence McNally's new play, "Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams," but was unable to find time in his busy schedule, is now back in the show, pinch-hitting for Peter Frechette, who had to leave "Dedication" because of a scheduling conflict of his own.
Producer and director Stanley Kramer who ended up with the film, planned to star Leigh but was initially unaware of the fragile mental and physical health of his star.
Next year she plans to star in the coming-of-age drama Very Good Girls, with Dustin Hoffman and her former high-school peer Dakota Fanning.
And perhaps she is headed for the screen — Julia Roberts plans to star in a movie version of this high-concept story.
My grandfather was planning to star her in a new movie, 'The Freak.' Then a picture of her was published in a magazine, along with a story that quoted her saying she wanted to become a circus clown.
The latest "get" for the show, our colleague Kevin Roose of DealBook reports, is Diane Passage, the fourth wife of the imprisoned money manager Kenneth Starr, according to the show's creator, Devon Fleming, who also plans to star in it.
Naomi Watts is planning to star in a biopic based on the novel, "Blonde," by Joyce Carol Oates Michelle Williamss is shooting "My Week With Marilyn," and another movie is planned based on an account by Lionel Grandison, a former deputy Los Angeles coroner who claims he was forced to change the star's death certificate to read suicide instead of murder.
HBO said on Tuesday that Mr. Gandolfini was planning to star in a new made-for-cable film that would return him to the network that gave us "The Sopranos," as well as the state that gave us the Bada Bing! club.
Mr. Lane, a two-time Tony Award winner ("The Producers") with a golden touch at the box office, said in an interview on Monday that he plans to star on Broadway next spring in a Lincoln Center Theater production of "The Nance," a new play about early 20th-century burlesque, written by Douglas Carter Beane ("The Little Dog Laughed").
