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Let me just state up front, for the record, that Samuel L. Jackson is the man (although his movie The Man did kinda suck). No matter, he's still the man and can do no wrong (well, except maybe for xXx and that shark movie. Oh, and that snake movie too). Ok, fine, he's the man who can mostly do no wrong.

Putting his few filmic transgressions aside (hey, he's gotta pay the rent and afford golf balls, right?) Jackson is still one of the most versatile, dynamic and busy mo-fos working in Hollywood today. Besides, anybody who can say they were in Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Coach Carter, S.W.A.T and Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith deserves all the props he can get, don't you think? That is a tasty list of credits.

And now, Jackson is adding another film to his already impressive, and crowded, resume -- The Cleaner, a thriller scripted by Matthew Aldrich. Who does Jackson face in this new thriller? Is it terrorists, greedy drug dealers, Dark Lords of the Sith or maybe more of those mother f-ing snakes on that mother f-ing plane? No, in The Cleaner, Jackson, playing an ataxaphobic neat-freak who cleans up crime scenes for a living, must overcome his compulsive fear of untidiness in order to solve a murder that he helped cover up while doing his job. As he investigates the crime, he eventually uncovers secrets of his past that threaten to change his life forever.

Cool. Sounds good to me. Sorry James Brown, Jackson is the hardest working man in show business. And I, for one, couldn't be happier about it. The Cleaner starts shooting in January. No word yet on co-stars or a release date.

What's your favorite SLJ flick?

A flurry of screenplay-related activity has escaped online today, and so I've gone ahead and stuck all the news into this one post. Check it out:

• Oh, I know you're dying for an update on that American Girl movie. Admit it, you love the dolls, own the dolls and want the dolls so badly, your anticipation for this flick is through the roof. Well, I'm happy to report that Ann Peacock has been brought on to write the script, which will focus on a character named Kit Kettridge who grows up during the early years of the great depression. Peacock is well-versed in the kid fare, as she was also a writer on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
• Warner Bros. has hired Matthew Aldrich to adapt Elaine Marie Alphin's novel, The Counterfeit Son. Story focuses on a man who tries to con a family out of their dead child's trust fund. Ya know, one of those feel-good flicks.
• And speaking of Warner Bros., they're just crazy busy lately in the world of screenwriting, having also picked up the spec, Himelfarb. Written by newcomers Jarred Paul and Andrew Mogul, pic revolves around an emotionally needy man who, after misinterpreting signals on a first date, winds up following this poor girl to Nebraska where he goes all "What About Bob" on her. Ah, gotta love them stalker comedies.