Monday, July 14

• Mary Steenburgen on Reese Witherspoon in Four Christmases

  Mary Steenburgen is playing a lot of funny moms these days, including in the Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly comedy, Step Brothers, coming out this month and the holiday comedy, Four Christmases.

  "In Four Christmases, both Vince (Vaughn) and Reese (Witherspoon) have divorced parents and they finally after years of avoiding everyone's home at Christmas have to go to all four Christmases," Steenburgen explains. "My house, I'm her mom who goes through boyfriends like crazy, and each time I have a new boyfriend I become completely like whoever that boyfriend is. So every time she doesn't know who she's coming home to."

  "My current boyfriend at that time is Dwight Yoakam, who is a pastor at a New-Agey church with a Britney headset and dry ice," she continues. "I'm completely his groupie. Just an absolute devotee. So that's who Reese has to come home with her."

  Sounds funny, indeed.

  Mary Steenburgen can next be seen in Step Brothers, opening on July 25.

  
  

  Posted 07/14/2008 by Heather

  Mary Steenburgen | Reese Witherspoon | Step Brothers | Four Christmases

Friday, July 27

• Casting newz: Sarandon joins Lovely Bones, Vaughn and Witherspoon quadruple Christmas

  Another castmember has been added to Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones. Susan Sarandon has signed on the play the grandmother of the murdered girl from whose perspective the story is told. That's one sexy grandma.

  And on the comedy front, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn will be teaming up as a couple struggling to spend time with all four of their divorced parents for the holidays in Four Christmases. The script, which was written by Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson, doesn't have any directors attached yet.

  
  

  Posted 07/27/2007 by Heather

  Reese Witherspoon | Susan Sarandon | Vince Vaughn | The Lovely Bones | Four Christmases