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'Bad Mother,' 'Crusoe' get leads


April 20, 2008 Alicia Silverstone is set to star in ABC's hot comedy pilot "Bad Mother's Handbook," and Philip Winchester will play the title character in NBC's drama series "Crusoe." The single-camera "Handbook," from ABC Studios, writers Jennifer Konner and Alexandra Rushfield and director Richard Shepard, centers on Karen (Silverstone), a 32-year-old woman too busy taking care of her 16-year-old daughter (Shawkat) and 48-year-old mother. Silverstone, who recently starred in David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" at the Geffen Playhouse, toplined NBC's 2003 dramedy "Miss Match," for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.

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