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For the upcoming romantic comedy Bride Wars, we've already got Kate Hudson battling Anne Hathaway. The actresses play best friends who begin warring when they both pick the same wedding date. Instead of compromising, sharing, or figuring out a way to make things work, neither will back down from their chosen date, and they begin competing for everything from venues and services to the guests they hope to score.

Now Variety reports that Candice Bergen has signed on to co-star as Marion St. Claire -- "the queen of all wedding planners." (I wonder if she works with Franck Eggelhoffer?) I think it's safe to say that Ms. Bergen will be someone both women fight to hire, and since she's listed as a co-star, maybe the planner will play both sides of the fence. While Bergen has been busy over the years, from her stint on Sex and the City, to her main gig on Boston Legal, The In-Laws was her last movie gig, in 2003. Now she's got bridal wars and The Women coming our way.

The women have been really hard to come by -- at least when The Women in question is a remake of the 1939 classic. (What is it with the year 1939 lately?) MGM was first focused on the project, but no real headway was made and the title was sold to Ted Turner as part of MGM's library. He, in turn, bought New Line and made the film a starring vehicle for Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, with James L. Brooks signed on to direct (1994). It was at this point that Diane English was brought on to the production, a writer known for her work on Murphy Brown. It took a handful of years and then she was named director of the project in 2001. It took another 5 years to get further, when Matt Bradshaw posted about the cast of the film, which consisted of Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Anne Hathaway and Candice Bergen. It was supposed to start shooting in March, but nothing happened when Spring rolled around.

Now Variety has the scoop on The Women, which almost has a finalized cast, and has gotten an actual start date -- August 6 -- over ten years after the adaptation was put in the works. Some of the cast has stayed the same, and some have changed. Along with Ryan and Bergen, actresses in final talks are Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith and Debra Messing. That's really one hell of a cast considering that the film has got a budget under $20 million. One of the backers is Dove, you know, the soap? When the film begins to be marketed, I imagine there will be lots and lots of soap-centric commercials with these leading ladies. As for how the title is translated over 60 years later, word has it that English's "script maintains the arch spirit of the original, and the all-female cast, but the gals aren't as relentlessly catty this time around." It is, however, still about the group of female friends and how one's husband is cheating on her.

A woman named Lucyna Turyk-Wawrynowicz, who worked as a maid for several Hollywood stars, pled guilty in a New York court yesterday to stealing from most of them. Among her big cheese victims were Robert De Niro's wife (from whom Turyk-Wawrynowicz took a pair of earrings worth almost $100,000) and Candice Bergen, whose leather jacket and several cameras were stolen. Even more alarming than the thievery, though, was the fact that, when Bergen confronted Turyk-Wawrynowicz about her action, the woman threatened to accuse Bergen's husband of sexual harassment if Bergen dared go to the police. That, my friends, is balls.

In the end, though, it was the fault of her victims if Turyk-Wawrynowicz stole from them. According to the high-class thief, "I only stole from people who didn't treat me with respect." Basically, that means that Isabella Rossellini has been confirmed as the coolest woman on earth, because she's the only employer whose stuff Turyk-Wawrynowicz left alone.

All of this is interesting and all, but here's my question: how does a 35-year-old woman get a group of clients like that? Did they all live in the same building, or something? It's just bizarre.