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Unconditional Love: Rupert Everett is in final negotiations to star with Kathy Bates in New Line's "Unconditional Love" for a career-best payday of low seven figures. The film reteams Everett with director P.J. Hogan ("Muriel's Wedding"), who wrote the comic thriller with wife Jocelyn Moorehouse. In "Love,'' Bates plays a Chicagoan who heads to London for the funeral of her pop star idol after being dumped by her husband. There she meets the murdered singer's lover (Everett), and persuades him to return to Chicago with her to hunt for the killer. Full Story >>>
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Kathy kept on and, now entering her thirties, joined the Actors' Theatre in Louisville. Here she starred in Crimes Of The Heart, Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerning racism, ageing, murder, suicide and all-out weirdness in the South, Kathy playing Lenny McGrath, the eldest of three freaky sisters. Both Kathy and the play went down well, but more importantly, working in Louisville introduced her to writer Marsha Norman and actress Anne Pitomak. Norman had written a play called 'Night Mother, concerning the last night the suicidal Jessie spends with her mum, and was ironing out the details. She invited Kathy and Pitomak over to her apartment for a cold reading and, by the end, all three were in tears. So well had the pair performed that Jesse, originally written as a skinny woman, was altered to suit Bates.
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The Philadelphia Theatre Company has announced the postponement of Terrence McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion, which was set to star Kathy Bates, due to the star's illness. The company said, in a statement, that it had decided upon the postponement because McNally wrote the new play specifically with Bates in mind, and another star of her caliber could not be found in time for the show's first preview in late October.
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