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By Borys Kit LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Adam Sandler and Kevin James are in negotiations to play firefighters who pretend to be a gay couple in an upcoming film comedy "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," "Wedding Crashers" director David Dobkin is attached to take the helm of the long-gestating project at Universal Pictures. The firefighters in "Chuck and Larry" pose as a married gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefits. Alexander Payne and James Taylor, the...

By Borys Kit LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Peter Segal, the director of several Adam Sandler movies, will turn the classic TV spy spoof "Get Smart" into a feature. Steve Carell is attached to play hapless secret agent Maxwell Smart. The series, which ran on NBC from 1965 to 1969 and then on CBS for one season, starred Don Adams as Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, a spy for Control, fighting the evil forces of Kaos. Warner Bros.' big-screen version will contemporize the setting, with...

By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Silent film buffs know him as a rival of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, but it is unlikely that modern movie fans know much more about Harold Lloyd than his face. Lloyd is the guy with round glasses and straw hat hanging from a clock on a tower high above the ground, holding on perilously to its hand as it begins to turn down. That picture from 1923's "Safety, Last!' has become an iconic image of a bygone Hollywood era, but for every laugh...