Candice Bergen to Join 'Boston Legal'
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Candice Bergen is joining her first prime-time TV series since "Murphy Brown," this time as a cast member of ABC's "Boston Legal."
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The actress will now feature in a game.
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Paget Brewster has  joined the cast of CBS' hot sophomore drama "Criminal Minds" as  a regular.
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The lawyer for former New England Patriots employee Matt Walsh said his client is willing to turn over videotapes he made for the team if the NFL guarantees Walsh protection from lawsuits or other legal action.
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The FX cable channel has  handed out a series commitment to &quot;Queen B,&quot; a female workplace  drama from the creator of &quot;Nip/Tuck.&quot;
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Barbara Robb has gone from making plays on the basketball court to making pitches in the courtroom. Now an employment attorney for Perkins Smith &amp; Cohen LLP in Boston, Robb is a far cry from being the Jerry Maguire of sports negotiators, but she is starting to combine sports knowledge with legal erudition.
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A Harvard cardiologist hopes to teach healthcare giant Johnson &amp; Johnson some new tricks. Beverly H. Lorell took a leave from her academic job last year to become chief medical and technology officer for Guidant Corp. The post puts her at the center of the record $25.4 billion deal rolled out yesterday in which Guidant agreed to be purchased by ...
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LOS ANGELES  - Fox has handed out a series commitment to "Queen B," a female workplace drama from the creator of "Nip/Tuck."
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Raquel Welch has come  aboard CBS&#39; comedy pilot &quot;The Captain,&quot; which revolves around  the characters who live in an old Hollywood building. Welch  will play a former TV star and bombshell.
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Linus Roache has joined  the cast of NBC&#39;s &quot;Law & Order&quot; as the new assistant district  attorney who succeeds Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) after McCoy&#39;s  promotion to DA.
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LOS ANGELES  - Tyra Banks is adding the  role of talk show host to her resume.
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Lorraine Bracco will be the next star of "The Sopranos" to moonlight on a "Law &amp; Order" drama.
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A mobster will be taking over for a cop on "Law &amp; Order." Michael Imperioli of "The Sopranos" will appear in the NBC drama while series star Jesse L. Martin, who plays New York police detective Ed Green, films the musical "Rent," NBC said Thursday.
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Actor Alan Alda is to join the cast of The West Wing, a report says.  Plus news on record shopping, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Angus Deayton.
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William Shatner won a guest actor Emmy last month for playing bombastic barrister Denny Crane on "The Practice." That show's gone &#151; but not Crane, who now has a full-time job on the spinoff, "Boston Legal."
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A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private investigator facing trial on wiretapping and conspiracy charges, can represent himself at trial next month. Judge Dale S. Fischer of United States District Court said she was bound by Supreme Court case law to let Mr. Pellicano do so, but urged him to reconsider. The ruling raises the prospect that Mr. Pellicano, who often grabbed the limelight in his career as an investigator to the stars, would again take center stage at his trial, set to begin Feb. 27. By acting as his own lawyer he will cross-examine prosecution witnesses like Anita Busch, the former journalist who the authorities say was wiretapped by Mr. Pellicano and was threatened in a scheme he orchestrated, as well as other cooperating witnesses who prosecutors say hired Mr. Pellicano to wiretap their adversaries.
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NBC has scored a major casting get for "Heroes," landing former "Veronica Mars" star Kristen Bell for a guest-starring role in the coming season.  Bell will appear in several episodes of the hit series, playing a woman with shadowy ties...