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In this June 4, 2016, file photo, Julia Roberts accepts the woman
of the decade award at the Guys Choice Awards in Culver City,
Calif.
Associated Press
Julia Roberts to

take on first-ever This Nov. 19, 2016 file photo shows actress Gina Rodriguez at the 2016 Marie Claire “Young Wom-

starring TV series role en’s Honors” in Los Angeles. Associated Press
Gina Rodriguez creates, hosts

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julia Roberts is set to star in her first-
ever TV series. inaugural Young Women’s Honors
The Hollywood Reporter says Roberts will star in a limited
series based on Maria Semple’s novel, “Today Will Be Dif-
ferent.” Roberts will star as the book’s main character, El- SANDY COHEN that we don’t see that of- Holmes, Steinfeld, Laverne
eanor Flood. AP Entertainment Writer ten in the media and pop Cox, Tatiana Maslany
Semple tells the magazine she’s giddy “Eleanor Flood will LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gina culture. ... And it would be and others to appear as
be brought to life by Julia Roberts.” Rodriguez imagined a Hol- great to start streaming presenters on a first-time
Roberts also is set to produce the series. No network for lywood-style awards show stuff like Young Women’s awards show. Rodriguez
the project has been announced. that recognized young Honors through the same found the experience
Roberts has done numerous guest appearances on vari- women for realizing their apparatus that says you deeply rewarding, and at
ous TV series over the years, but this project would be her dreams in science, pub- should have lip injections.” times overwhelming.
first in a regular role.q lic policy and community The show, taped last month “I had never been more
service, so the actress fol- at the Marina del Rey Mar- hands-on besides ‘Jane,’”
lowed her own dream and riott in Los Angeles, also
Ryan Reynolds made it happen. spotlights Olympic gym- Rodriguez said. “When it
was done, I went on the
honored with star on The “Jane the Virgin” star is nast Simone Biles, Paralym- balcony and just bawled.”
pian Tatyana McFadden
producer and host of the in-
There’s no more time for
augural Marie Claire Young and Fereshteh Forough ,
Hollywood Walk of Fame Women’s Honors , airing who is providing income tears, though, even ones
of relief. Rodriguez is busy
Monday as a special on possibilities to women in
the CW at 9 p.m. ET. Afghanistan by teaching shooting “Jane the Virgin,”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan which returned for its third
Reynolds is the latest ce- The show has all the trap- them computer coding season in the fall. She’s on
lebrity to earn a star on the pings of a typical Holly- skills. the cover of Marie Claire
Hollywood Walk of Fame. wood awards ceremony Young Women’s Honors is magazine’s December is-
The 40-year-old “Dead- — a glitzy dinner with ce- the first project for Rodri- sue, which features the
pool” actor was honored lebrity presenters such as guez’s year-old production recipients of the Young
Thursday in a ceremony Katie Holmes and Hailee company, I Can and I Will Women’s Honors inside.
along Hollywood Boule- Steinfeld — except the Productions. The actress And now she’s off to Thai-
vard. honorees are female and her partners devel- land, where she’s writing a
Reynolds recalled walking achievers outside the en- oped the show, secured
tertainment industry, like sponsors and presenters book inspired by her father,
down the same street for
the first time as a teenager. entrepreneur-inventor Jes- and helped choose the “I Can and I Will: Tools My
Daddy Gave Me.”
He said seeing his name sica Matthews and political honorees.
added to the walk is be- activist Amanda Nguyen. “It was a huge undertak- But first comes the premiere
yond anything he could “I’ve always wanted to do ing,” Rodriguez said. “It was of Young Women’s Honors,
have ever imagined. Reyn- work to uplift women, to like planning a wedding. It and Rodriguez is still pinch-
olds was accompanied by put women in the forefront was like a week before the ing herself.
his wife, actress Blake Live- of the media and to re- wedding everything was a “This has been a dream of
ly, and their two daugh- ally glorify other aspects of disaster and the bride was mine forever,” she said. “I
ters. He was also joined by Actor Ryan Reynolds poses our society that aren’t just going to run away — me am telling others to dream
his older brothers and his atop his new star on the Hol- fame driven,” Rodriguez being the bride!” big and to make their
mother at the event. lywood Walk of Fame follow- said in a recent interview. She said she was moved dreams a reality and it’s
ing a ceremony on Thursday,
Actress Anna Faris also Dec. 15, 2016, in Los Angeles. “There are a lot of wonder- by the honorees’ achieve- something that I did in suc-
ful things that a woman ments and touched by the cession with doing this. It is
spoke at the ceremony.q Associated Press
can do and is capable of willingness of actresses like such a real feeling.”q