These days, the only thing keeping Katie Holmes in the spotlight is her marriage to Tom Cruise and vampy new look. It's a shame after the cool flicks that jump-started her career like The Ice Storm, Go, Wonder Boys, and The Gift. Nevertheless, she's become one of the queens of tabloid fodder, and turning down Dark Knight for that stinker known as Mad Money didn't help things at all. Could Broadway save her?

The Daily Mail says that she's in final negotiations to make her Broadway debut in All My Sons, a post-WWII drama written by Arthur Miller (that also became a film in 1948). Should she sign on the dotted line (she's already committed to private workshops of the play), she'll join John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest in the production. Yes! At the very least, we've got a Footloose reunion to delight in.

Aside from the cast, this production should get a lot of buzz because it's the first major revival of Miller's work since his death a few years ago. Based on a true story, it follows a woman whose father sold faulty parts to the military during the war. It's no Mad Money, so this might just be Holmes' professional resurrection. Considering Cruise's waning roster lately, could she revive things and become the family bread winner?

Okay, I don't get it. So we've got this adaptation of one of Sophie Kinsella's books coming to the big screen, Confessions of a Shopaholic. Isla Fisher stars as Rebecca, this college grad who gets a sweet gig as a financial journalist in Manhattan, but struggles with an immense shopping addiction that makes her bills increase well beyond what she can afford. And at some point in all of this, she falls in love with a successful entrepreneur, and also throws on a tacky outfit that rivals the horrors that Carrie Bradshaw has in her closet.

Is this whole "financial journalist" title just some sort of catchy job description? Who hires a spastic shopaholic as a financial journalist? Well, according to The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like it is one of the following -- John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Lynn Redgrave, and Julie Hagerty. Okay... It's probably not Bibb, who is a fashion magazine staffer, nor Hagerty, who plays a business magazine assistant. However, it could be Lithgow's publishing magnate, Thomas' magazine editor, or Redgrave's "doyenne of a publishing empire."

So far, this sounds more like a fantasy than any sort of realistic romcom, not to say that romantic comedies are usually realistic. I just wish we could have less "women are terrible with money" crap. I know I'm not the only one who doesn't shop myself into debt, or keep credit card balances with sadistic interest rates.

The double-role has been a favorite for movie audiences for a long time. Actors as different as Lon Chaney and Ronald Colman have indulged in the two-actors-for-the-price-of-one roles. In The Dark Knight, Aaron Eckhart will get to do a two-fer, playing a character who didn't get nearly enough to do in that Joel Schumacher fiasco. (Though I did very much enjoy the bifurcated Tommy Lee Jones' use of the pluralis majestatis, the royal "we.") Few double-roles, however, are as roundly a good time as Brian De Palma's Raising Cain, a reviled but rich melodrama derived in equal parts from Psycho and the equally scandalous Peeping Tom. Preposterous, invigoratingly silly, and done to a technical turn by Hitchcock's most devoted fan, this forgotten thriller gives John Lithgow -- kindly actor and easy-going TV star of Third Rock from the Sun --a chance to show his hulking, evil side.

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Back around 1982 -- just around the time a little movie called E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was dazzling everyone and their grandmother -- young director Steven Spielberg instantly morphed into an absolute juggernaut of an executive producer. Along with partners Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg lent his name/stamp of approval to a whole bunch of family-friendly comedies and adventure flicks. During the Amblin' Era, the trio gave us Gremlins, The Goonies, Back to the Future, The Money Pit, An American Tail, Young Sherlock Holmes, Innerspace, Three O'Clock High and Batteries Not Included. Oh, but wait... I'm forgetting one...

Ah yes, 1987's Harry and the Hendersons, which was little more than a slightly sitcommier version of E.T., but it boasted more than enough assets to warrant its own loyal fan base. (For those who don't remember, it's a flick about the craziness that occurs when a Sasquatch is invited to live in a nice little suburban home.) Starring John Lithgow as the dad, Melinda Dillon as the mom and Don Ameche, Lainie Kazan and M. Emmet Walsh in supporting roles, Harry proved to be quite the decent little hit for the Amblin' gang and their Universal partners. The flick was in heavy HBO rotation for a while and (of course) it made its way to VHS ... but thousands of hardcore Harry fans have bemoaned the lack of a DVD release for some time now. (Geek Tidbit: The guy who played Bigfoot in this movie also played the title characters in Prophecy and Predator!)