<i>The Goodbye Girl</i> featuring Alan Cumming premieres on TNT (11023)

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The Goodbye Girl featuring Alan Cumming premieres on TNT
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       A new made-for-TV version of Neil Simon's 1977 film The Goodbye Girl will be broadcast on TNT on Friday, January 16; Saturday, January 17; and Sunday, January 18. Patricia Heaton stars as a beleaguered dancer who takes another stab at love with an aspiring actor (Jeff Daniels). Pansexual actor Alan Cumming costars as a bizarre theater director who casts Daniels in his decidedly revisionist take on Shakespeare's Richard III. For more information, visit www.TNT.tv.     

        
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