Posted on 08/24/2007 7:18:05 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In her first major solo role without her twin sister, Mary-Kate Olsen is returning to series television for the first time since 2002 with a co-starring role on Showtime's dark comedy "Weeds."
Olsen will play Tara, a devoted Christian girl living in the newly developed megachurch community Majestic who becomes a love interest for Nancy Botwin's (Mary-Louise Parker) son Silas (Hunter Parrish). Olsen will appear in 10 of the 15 episodes of the show's third season, which premieres August 13.
Since their debut on ABC's hit comedy series "Full House" at age 9 months, Olsen and her twin sister, Ashley, have starred together in a string of kids- and tween-oriented series and movies for television and video. In 2001-2002 they starred in the ABC Family sitcom "So Little Time." They most recently starred in the 2004 feature comedy "New York Minute," which the two also produced.
Olsen's role on the edgy Showtime series about a pot-dealing mom (Parker) also is a departure from the wholesome, PG characters she and her sister have played and opens a new chapter in her acting career. Olsen's treatment in 2004 for an eating disorder was widely reported.
"'Weeds' isn't your 8 o'clock family fare," series creator and executive producer Jenji Kohan said. "It's an adult show with adult subject matter, and we're confident Mary-Kate is right for the role. She came in and read with Hunter and was absolutely charming and real and seemed like a great fit. Audiences have seen only one side of Mary-Kate, but here we'll see her in a whole new light."
In addition to Olsen, joining the "Weeds" cast this upcoming season is previously announced Matthew Modine.
Big Love actually has it’s moments....I have seen a few episodes...it’s very unusual
LOL! I nominate that for post of the day!
Yea, a 18 month old toddling in and saying a line or two once a week is so exploitational(rolling eyes)
OMG, she looks like that socialite Astor who just passed at 100 in that picture.
So I wonder when the woman-beating Muslim trying to spread their faith with threats of death will make an appearance on this show?
Mary Jane for Mary Kate
“The Olsen twins are just the latest examples of children sacrificed by their parents on the altar of Fame.”
Exactly the words I was looking for on the Lindsey Lohan thread. I feel sorry for all of them.
You obviously haven’t been keeping up with medical science. One joint does as much damage to the lungs as a PACK of cigarettes. But you’ll never see this FACT of science shouted by our counter-counter-counter-culture media. Or anyone for that matter.
Don’t get me wrong. I support your right to do whatever you want to your own body, but at least be informed about it please. Everything in moderation. Although I am reminded of a TShirt Hell shirt “I drink in Moderation* (* - Moderation is an imaginary place that exists wherever I am.)”
Behold the kind of "logic" that keeps alcohol legal and marijuana illegal.
I said that marijuana is less dangerous and damaging than alcohol, and AntiKev responds that it is more dangerous than tobacco. This may or may not be true, and even if it is, very few marijuana users smoke two or three joints every single day. But it's not even remotely a refutation of my point about alcohol.
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You really don't have much of a train of thought, do you? You said: You are sadly mistaken. The injunctions are against intoxication of any kind. I say, those injunctions are no such thing. They refer to "drunkenness" only, and I defy you to find a shred of proof that this refers to anything other than the effects of excess amounts of orally-ingested ethyl alcohol.
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I fully agree, and that is one of the many reasons I do not use marijuana or any other illegal drug at all.
But it is not a justification for keeping marijuana illegal, when the far more dangerous drug ethyl alcohol can be found for sale on the shelf of any grocery store.
If you support keeping marijuana illegal, and alcohol legal, then you are not serious about saving young peoples' lives. Period, end of story.
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So since they’re trying to make a Christian look crazy for smoking pot.. does that mean all the liberal pot smokers are crazy too?
I don’t know.
However, I still don’t buy the “drugs make me closer to God” BS that addicts use as an excuse to sit around wasting their lives.
She does have that "caveman" look that many men are attracted to.
Then why not drink some hemlock tea? Oh, that's right. Just because it comes from a plant doesn't mean it is good for you.
Yet there are plenty of so-called "Christians" here on FR and throughout society who are quite happy to condemn pot smokers between gulps of their martinis.
Since I don't drink alcohol, it's apparently okay that I condemn pot smokers. What I particularly condemn is trying to justify sin by twisting scripture.
This is not an exhaustive list but some I found in the NT that concern sober living and clearity of thought and purpose. Enjoy.
1 Peter 1:13; 5:8, Titus 2:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:6, 1 Peter 4:7, 1 Timothy 3:2,3; Titus 1:8, 1 Timothy 3:11, Titus 2:2,
Titus 2:6, Titus 2:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:6,8, 1 Timothy 2:9
Romans 12:3, Titus 2:12, 1 Peter 4:7; 5:8
Anybody can grow a hemlock, and nobody will lock them up, confiscate their home and car, cancel their student loan, and prevent them from ever holding a government job, owning a gun, or obtaining a professional license. And so it should be with marijuana.
Anyone who thinks I use marijuana, or that I am arguing that marijuana is a good thing, or that those who don't use it should begin doing so, needs to go back and re-read what I wrote. I don't use it and think it unwise for anyone else to use it.
But I believe that there is no Constitutional or moral basis for banning it outright, especially while the far more dangerous drug alcohol is readily available. I know for a fact that anti-marijuana laws lead to more deaths than the toxic effects of marijuana use, because even the DEA admits that nobody has ever died from a marijuana overdose.
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