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Keith Carradine, Laurie Metcalf and original A Lie of the Mind cast member Karen Young complete the cast of The New Group's upcoming revivial of that Sam Shepard drama.

Josh Hamilton, Marin Ireland, Deirdre O'Connell, Alessandro Nivola, Maggie Siff and Frank Whaley will star in the upcoming Ethan Hawke-directed staging of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind .

Remember when Kevin Spacey was awesome? Distant seem the days when Spacey could steal a movie from Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman with just a few minutes of screen time , or could hoodwink the audience for the duration of a movie with a canny performance , or could turn a boss-from-hell into a repellent yet magnetic monster .

The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Betsy A. in Norcross, Ga.: When I was a senior in high school, I had to have emergency optic nerve surgery.

Inside Hollywood, from the vantage of a lowly, trampled assistant to a megalomaniacal production executive known to Time magazine as "the king of wham-bam action" . A useful supplement to The Player and Mistress: knowing, sour, snappish.

In the past month, Kevin Spacey turned 50 and his latest film, "Shrink," a comedy drama about a Hollywood psychiatrist whose personal problems rival those of his celebrity clients, opened in theaters.

Jonas Pate 's first big solo full-length film, Shrink , is Hollywood at its most self-reflective, if by self-reflective you mean a fictionalization of introspection.

"Shrink" rap with Kevin Spacey, who's 50 Kevin Spacey called last week from the New Orleans set of "Father of Invention," in which he plays an egomaniacal inventor and infomercial guru, for a Chronicle Movie Chat, which will run in the paper soon.

Remember when Kevin Spacey was awesome? Distant seem the days when Spacey could steal a movie from Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman with just a few minutes of screen time , or could hoodwink the audience for the duration of a movie with a canny performance , or could turn a boss-from-hell into a repellent yet magnetic monster .

The new indie release "Shrink" is an odd duck. On one hand, it wants to be taken seriously as a character study of a psychiatrist who must navigate the lives of several Hollywood types while trying to keep his own on track.

What happens when the people we count on to hold us together...are barely holding it together themselves? Jonas Pate's Shrink is a striking, fast-paced expose of the "other" Hollywood, featuring... What happens when the people we count on to hold us together...are barely holding it together themselves? Jonas Pate's Shrink is a striking, fast-paced ...

This month, Kevin Spacey discusses his latest film, in which he plays "Shrink" to stars.

Two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey spoke about his upcoming film, Shrink , which debuts in theaters on July 24th.

Grief and suicide seem unlikely subjects for a comedy. But Shrink tries gamely to mine edgy humor from the darkest places.