'Proof' is in casting at Lifetime

June 16, 2008 Angie Harmon, Amanda Bynes, Bernadette Peters, Swoosie Kurtz, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Trudie Styler, Tammy Blanchard, John Benjamin Hickey and Paula Cale have joined Harry Connick Jr. in the movie, from executive producers Renee Zellweger, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. "Proof," from Zadan and Meron's Storyline Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV, is based on Robert Bazell's book and centers on Dennis Slamon (Connick), the UCLA doctor who developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin. Harmon portrays Lilly Tartikoff, wife of former NBC entertainment chief Brandon Tartikoff and the person responsible for raising money to continue Slamon's research.

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