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MTV reality series for 'Pimp' rappers

Music News: Skein will follow Three 6 Mafia from Memphis to L.A. -- MTV is hooking up with Academy Award-winning rap group Three 6 Mafia for new comedic reality series "Adventures in Hollyhood." Music network has greenlit eight half-hours that will follow the group as they endeavor to become Hollywood players.

Published: 2006-09-21 Provider: Variety.com

Veterans fill award race with class

Award Central: Julie Christy among list of vibrant actors -- While Hollywood will never cease its endless flirtation with promoting youth, some of its best offerings this awards season showcase the work of veteran actors. The list is impressive, among them: Julie Christie, 66, earning some of the best reviews of her career in Sarah Polley's "Away From Her"; 82-year-old Hal Holbrook setting aside his Mark Twain duds to play a lonely widower in "Into the Wild"; Andy Griffith, 81, as a wise diner owner in the indie hit "Waitress"; Armin Mueller-Stahl. 77, bringing grandfatherly sweetness and beastly bite to the crime drama "Eastern Promises"; Philip Bosco, also 77, unsentimentally depicting a mentally deteriorating father in Tamara Jenkins' "The Savages"; Frank Langella as a wise writer in "Starting Out in the Evening"; and 67-year-old Peter Fonda giving us a grizzled killer in the Western "3:10 to Yuma." According to Holbrook, hanging it up is anathema. "My accountant the other day said, 'Hal, you've been pushing yourself so hard for so long, you should think of retiring.' I said, 'Are you out of your mind? What am I gonna do?'" Especially when you've been around long enough to have sown the seeds for a juicy part later in life, as Holbrook discovered when he and wife Dixie Carter complimented a young and unknown Sean Penn on a TV movie set back in 1981. "He wrote a letter thanking us for being encouraging," says Holbrook, "and 27 years later I get a call from my agent that he sent a script." Getting to play someone other than the usual senators and lawyers he usually gets offered was one blessing. Another for the longtime outdoorsman was getting to walk up a jagged hill on screen. "They wanted to put a stuntman in there and I said, 'No!,'" recalls Holbrook. "I went up three times, down once and didn't hurt myself. But they all got nervous." Mueller-Stahl, a 120-film-plus performer who viewed the role of a Russian Mafia kingpin in David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises"

Published: 2007-11-17 Provider: Variety.com