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Exclusive: Olivier Award-winning stage star Lesli Margherita has joined Taye Diggs and Topher Grace in One Shot, the movie musical about a failed performer-turned-stage manager (Grace) struggling to keep his latest show from imploding on opening night. Broadway and West End vet Margherita will play Brandy, a brassy resident chorus girl who makes a bet with the flamboyant Malcolm (Diggs) to see who’ll bed a hunky new cast member first. Margherita is currently on Broadway in Matilda as Matilda’s mother Mrs. Wormwood, a role she originated for the NYC cast. She won an Olivier for her turn in the Gypsy Kings musical Zorro and nabbed an Ovation Award for her performance in Kiss Me Kate in La. TV credits include Fame L.A.; she’s repped by Hartig/Hilepo Agency and Velocity Entertainment Partners.

Eddie Marsan (Filth, War Horse, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) has joined Patrick Wilson,...

Part of the list provides a few Best Picture nominees, a number of Oscar winners, and a childhood favorite that still pops up now and again. In reality, this list could be half-full of music documentaries, but for that reason, I stayed away from them. Plus, I did my best to include only films that really are musicals in every sense of the word. Plenty of films have lots of musical components, but only true musicals have performances in the film that truly drive the story forward. The songs in movie musicals have a purpose, if there could be a true definition.

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40. Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

Directed by Michael Apted

Signature Song: “Coal Miner’s Daughter”

Michael Apted certainly has a dicey filmography, this probably being his best: a biographical piece featuring a breakout adult role from Sissy Spacek, winning her the Oscar for Best Actress.

TV reboots are good. Provided the right show is rebooted, that is. The wrong show to reboot is the one that's perfect as it was—like Bewitched, which CBS is sizing up for a do over. (The network has ordered a script, a source confirms to E! News.) As for the right show to reboot? That's the one that was far from perfect, the one that could benefit from a fresh approach—like these ones: 1. Fame: The proposal here is to reboot the reboots—the Melrose Place-y Fame L.A., the American Idol-y reality-competition series, the 2009 theatrical remake with the posters that looked like Coke ads. Go back to the small screen, go back to the storylines that could be resolved in single,...