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On the heels of the utterly ridiculous rumors that Uma Thurman might be pregnant because she once again has curves, but which turned out to be a little weight gain from the actress quitting smoking, she's now becoming a nanny. Ouch. The woman gains a little weight, which looks great on her frame, gets called puffy, and now is an aged nanny. Variety reports that she has signed on to costar in Eloise in Paris as the young girl's caretaker. This is Nanny. At least, how she has been previously.

It looks like the role got changed a little for Thurman. Variety says that while they are searching for the child lead, the role of Nanny was adopted "with Thurman in mind." I don't quite get that, unless they're trying to bank in on that whole Nanny Diaries thing. There are a lot of great and bankable actresses who could take on the role, and honestly, as much as I like Uma, her dramas and Tarantino movies work much better than her mainstream comedy. So, why the utter need for Thurman to headline this? So much so that you'd change a classic character?

It looks like we should get used to seeing Uma this way -- Handmade Films is hoping to make this a series that's followed with Eloise Goes to Hollywood.

As a kid, I left a trail of grandoise plans at my heels, and one of them was Eloise, en Français. Having just started to learn the language, and being able to say little more than "Quel temps fait-il?" and a barrage of numbers and colors, I found the French version of Eloise. It was to be my first fully-read and comprehended foreign language book, sure to be followed by many other French masterpieces. Well, my French classes turned into Spanish, and I was never able to read the book cover-to-cover.

Of course, Eloise has stuck around, and is now finding her way to the big screen to mock me and my unfinished French education. The freshly re-launched Handmade Films, which was originally set up by George Harrison, is picking the tale of the energetic young girl as their first movie back in the biz, according to Variety. Nigel Cole, who recently directed the Helen Mirren-starring Calendar Girls, has signed on as director of Eloise in Paris. Kay Thompson's classic has been adapted by Janet Brownell and Erin Joslyn -- the former has had experience writing for Eloise's television treatment, and this is Joslyn's first screenplay. While the television series remained Liza Minnelli-free, it would be nice to see the actress make an appearance, since she is Thompson's god-daughter, and sometimes rumored to be a model for Eloise.