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Armchair Daily: News From the World of Movies & TV March 24, 2010 ROBERT CULP DIES: Robert Culp, who teamed with Bill Cosby in the comedy series I Spy and also starred in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and The Greatest American Hero, has died at the age of 79. Los Angeles police say he accidentally hit his head while on a walk outside his home.  TV CASTING NEWS: Debra Messing, Carrie Fisher and Cheryl Hines will star in the ABC comedy pilot Wright vs. Wrong, a single-camera comedy about a conservative political personality (Messing). NO MORE THUMBS UP: Disney has pulled the plug on the resurrected movie-critic series At the Movies, which was originally hosted by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, continued with Ebert and Richard Roeper, then derailed with younger hosts Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz. It most recently tried to right itself with The New York Times' A.O. Scott and The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips. CAPTAIN AMERICA CAST: Chris Evans is reportedly being offered the role of Captain America in Marvel Studios' upcoming big-screen version. The role will repeatedly mean appearing in the long-awaited Avengers movie, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. --Ellen George Takei's Sharp Quattron commercial March 24, 2010 I was watching Lost when I stopped fast-forwarding through the commercials so I could see this pitch for Sharp TVs by George Takei, who played my favorite old-school Star Trek character, Sulu. (I like how it says "Actor Portrayal" so we won't think Takei is really an electronics... read more

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