Ever wonder why you can't sell your original pilot idea? That's because you're up against dabblers like Steven Spielberg. Showtime is developing a half-hour comedy from DreamWorks, The United States of Tara, based on an original idea from the aged wunderkind.
The single-camera Sybil-in-the-suburbs comedy follows the life of a wife and mother of two teenage kids who suffers from "dissociative identity disorder"-- politically-correct speak for multiple personality disorder (think a hot Roseanne)-- whose various personalities emerge when she's under stress. The pilot features Tara turning into a horny teenage girl and an adult man. The season will feature all sorts of different personas, so the role could be a tour de force for the right actress.
On second thought, let's not think a hot Roseanne.
Showtime's also greenlit that David Duchovny show we told you about back in November.
In his first series role since The X-Files, Duchovny willl play a character named " Hank Moody," (has he met Sam Malone?), a divorced and addicted writer raising his 16-year-old daughter while carrying a torch for his ex-girlfriend (Natascha McElhone).
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I sincerely hope Tara isn't suppose to be a comedy. Mood and personality disorders already have too much stigma as it is, way to make fun of it Speilberg.
Oh and TB, Roseanne is an awful example of what you're trying to explain, if you're saying Roseanne Barr. She's not even close to an example of someone w/ actual dissociative identity disorder might be like. Are you suppose to be reporting actual facts or gossip? Cause basically you're mis-informing anyone that reads this, since you're writing as though you know what you're talking about.
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Posted on March 16, 2007 1:42 PM