Castro's honeypot
Watch out Fidel Castro, Katniss Everdeen is coming for you. Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play Castro's teenage lover in a film based on the life of German-born American secret agent Marita Lorenz who was recruited by the CIA to poison the Cuban leader in 1960. Lorenz was 19 when she met Castro in 1959 shortly after the end of the Cuban revolution. As yet there's no news on who will play Castro.Fans of The Wire creator David Simon will be pleased to know that The Deuce, his drama series about the legalisation and rise of the porn industry in New York's Times Square has been ordered to series by HBO. The pilot is written by Simon and long-time collaborator George Pelecanos and will star James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal.Steve Coogan and John C Reilly have been cast as comedy giants Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in an upcoming BBC Films production Stan & Ollie set to start shooting this year...
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