Christine Baranski News

Move over, F. Lee Bailey! For a junior associate, Alicia has one heck of a track record for winning every case she tries, and last night her winning streak continued unabated.

Is Sheldon finally going to experience a big bang in more than theory? That's at least what I'm hoping will happen when Christine Baranski reprises her Emmy-nominated role of Leonard's smarty-pants mother in a January episode of The Big Bang Theory .

What's your Halloween costume this year? "You know how all these tortured indie-rock guys always wanted to date the cheerleader? Well, this time, I'm going to be a cheerleader, because I'm one of those tortured indie girls, and my boyfriend is going to be the quarterback, and he's British, so he doesn't even know what that means." - Karen O - Tilda ...

Despite numerous reports picked up on the rumor patrol, it seems that the particularly juicy one suggesting that Scarlett Johanssen will be starring in the upcoming Broadyway production of Promises Promises is in fact just that: rumor.

REASON TO WATCH: Top-notch cast, and shot in NYC. WHAT TONIGHT'S ABOUT: Alicia Florrick must stand by in humiliation while her husband, Peter , the attorney general of Cook County, resigns from public office in the wake of financial and sexual misconduct; he denies the former but cops to the latter.

This fall, she trades comic barbs for legalese on The Good Wife, playing lawyer Diane Lockhart, threatened boss of Julianna Margulies.

ANDREA Reynolds Plunkett doesn't have nice things to say about Alan Dershowitz , the lawyer who helped her one-time boyfriend Claus von Bulow beat an attempted murder conviction, or about the movie based on his book about the case.

You knew it had to happen - a television series inspired by the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal and those of several other high-profile politicians.

You knew it had to happen - a television series inspired by the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal and those of several other high-profile politicians.

PASADENA, Calif.- Buffalo's Christine Baranski is one of the stars of one of the best new dramas of the fall, CBS' "The Good Wife." That's right, I said drama.

Christine Baranski may not be so proud to have Jennifer Aniston as a daughter. Baranski will play mom to Aniston's bailjumper in the romantic comedy "The Bounty Hunter," according to Variety.

Christine Baranski has joined the cast of Sony's "Bounty Hunter" comedy as Jennifer Aniston's mother.

Back in 2002, several of us on the BroadwayStars staff were fortunate to see Ms.

Manhattan Theatre Club's Annual Spring Gala on May 18 at Cipriani 42nd Street will feature numbers from the Broadway musicals Billy Elliot, 9 to 5: The Musical, Shrek The Musical, West Side Story and more.

Tony Award-winner Mark Rylance will be presented with the Samuel H. Scripps Award at Theatre for a New Audience's Spring Gala Celebrating Shakespeare's 445th Birthday.

Vanessa Williams has revealed that a lesbian storyline has been cut from Ugly Betty .