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  • Mary-Louise Parker Talks Turbulent Point in Life, Billy Crudup-Claire Danes Memories

    Mary-Louise Parker has written a new book, and earlier this week she chatted about it with Savannah Guthrie on The Today Show. At one point the talk turned to a very turbulent point in the Weeds actress’s life–when Billy Crudup left her for Claire Danes. Mary-Louise Parker was seven months pregnant at the time.

    It was back in 2003, and Billy Crudup was starring opposite Claire Danes in Stage Beauty. Mary-Louise Parker recalls that moment in time in the part of her book called “Dear Mr. Cabdriver.”

    “S–t, goddamn. I mean, why, I mean why the hell-NO! Where are you going now?” Parker yelled at her cabdriver (as excerpted in her memoir). Her shouting got so bad, in fact, that the driver told Parker to get out of the car. “I don’t want you anymore,” he said to her. She replied: “No one does . . . Look at me . . . My life is worse than yours in this moment . . . I am alone. Look, see? I am pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe.”

    “This was a complete stranger that met me at a very low moment,” Mary-Louise Parker told Savannah Guthrie. “And had I been in touch with a higher self and been forgiving of him, it would’ve been heroic. But I was so attached to my own unhappiness that I was unable to sort of rise above feeling persecuted, and it just created this dynamic with this perfect stranger . . . and he held up a mirror at my face, he sort of haunted me because I didn’t consider him or his life.”

    Parker acknowledges that something very wonderful came out of that turbulent period–her now 11-year-old son William.

    “It was something that I had waited for all my life,” Parker says of motherhood, as detailed in her memoir. “I wanted a baby my whole life. I was a little girl who wanted that baby.”

    Mary-Louise Parker’s new book, Dear Mr. You, is a series of letters to the men from various periods in her life–some real and some made-up–who have shaped the person she is today. It hit book stores on November 10th.

  • Mary-Louise Parker: Clare Danes On Stealing Then Pregnant Parker’s Boyfriend Billy Crudup

    It came as a shock when Mary-Louise Parker, who was seven months pregnant at the time in 2003, learned that the father of her child, Billy Crudup, was leaving her for Clare Danes, whom he met on the set of their film, Stage Beauty.

    In an interview with Howard Stern, Danes, 36, opened up about her controversial relationship with Crudup and whether she regrets it.

    The Homeland actress said the public backlash over the romance was difficult.

    “That was a scary thing,” said Danes. “That was really hard. I didn’t know how to not do that. I was just in love with him and needed to explore that and I was 24… I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be.”

    Danes and the 47-year-old Almost Famous actor remained in a relationship for four years until she moved on with her future husband, Hugh Dancy.

    Danes said she is good with what transpired with Crudup.

    “But it’s okay. I went through it,” said Danes, adding that they remain friends today.

    “We’re friendly, we’re friends.”

    As for the Weeds actress, who has said little about the affair over the years, will likely address her feelings about that time in her life in her upcoming memoir, Dear Mr. You.

    Set to hit shelves on Nov. 10, the book will include a series of letters Mary-Louise Parker wrote to the men in her life — undoubtedly, among them, Crudup, the father of her 11-year-old son William.

  • Claire Danes Recalls Relationship With Billy Crudup, His Split from Mary-Louise Parker

    Claire Danes Recalls Relationship With Billy Crudup, His Split from Mary-Louise Parker

    Claire Danes was a guest on Howard Stern’s radio show on Monday, and the topic of an old love interest came up. Stern asked the Homeland star about her relationship several years back with Billy Crudup.

    Crudup and actress Mary-Louise Parker had been together for about eight years and she was pregnant–about seven months along–back in 2003, with their first child. Claire Danes and Billy Crudup met on the set of the film Stage Beauty, and Crudup left Parker for her shortly thereafter.

    “I was just in love with him,” Claire Danes recalled. “And needed to explore that and I was 24…I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be.”

    Danes acknowledged how difficult the public backlash over her part in the split was.

    “That was a scary thing,” she said. “That was really hard. I didn’t know how to not do that.”

    Claire Danes’ role in the break-up of Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker will likely be covered in Parker’s upcoming book, Dear Mr. You, which is due out on November 1st.

    Finally at peace with the entire ordeal, Claire Danes says she and Crudup are friends. The romance only lasted for about three years.

    “We’re friendly–we’re friends,” she says of her ex.

    Claire Danes married former Hannibal star Hugh Dancy in 2009. The couple has a three-year-old son named Cyrus.

    Did you know Claire Danes was once involved in this sordid breakup? How awful for Mary-Louise Parker to have been ditched for another woman while she was seven months pregnant.

  • Amanda Seyfried Joins Nina Dobrev in Marathon Stage Play, ‘The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway’

    Amanda Seyfried and Nina Dobrev are among the actors who have signed up for a marathon stage play that takes place in 24 hours and raises money for Urban Arts Partnership, which supports arts education in New York City’s public schools.

    Seyfried will take part in the 14th annual performance of The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway benefit Nov. 17. The event, touted as an “extreme rite of theater,” has actors, writers and directors writing, directing and performing six original short plays in a 24-hour period.

    Quite the undertaking, the marathon begins at 10 p.m. Nov. 16 when six writers, six directors, 24 actors, two musical guests and a production staff gather at New York City’s American Airlines Theatre. After each of the actors share a costume, prop and special skill, their assigned writer must create a ten-minute play by 7 a.m. the following morning. Directors return to read and select their piece and meet with their cast for the first time by 9 a.m. The final pieces will be performed at 8 p.m., interspersed with six musical acts.

    Actors joining Seyfried and Dobrev are Sasha Alexander, Uzo Aduba, Jamie Chung, Billy Crudup, Peter Dinklage, Rachel Dratch, Michael Ealy, Seth Green, Bryan Greenberg, Melanie Griffith, Taran Killam, Zoe Kravitz, Justin Long, Aasif Mandvi, Stephen Merchant, Diane Neal, Rosie Perez, Jay Pharoah, Pablo Schreiber, Sebastian Stan, Julia Stiles, Tracie Thoms and Michael Kenneth Williams.

    Directors include America Ferrera, Andy Fickman, and Kathy Najimy. Writers include Christina Anderson, Bekah Brunstetter, David Cross, David Lindsay Abaire and Jonathan Marc Sherman. Musical Guests include Andra Day and Bryan Terrell Clark, and the DJ will be Samantha Ronson. Also writing one of the plays is Sarwat Siddiqui, the winner of the Young Writers Program, who will be mentored by playwright Christina Anderson.

    Seyfried is currently filming Seth MacFarlane’s Ted 2, the follow-up to MacFarlane’s 2012 raunchy comedy about a foul-mouthed Teddy bear.

    Her first big break came in 2004, with the movie Mean Girls. The multi-talented actress and singer went on to star in HBO’s acclaimed polygamy series Big Love and then starred in the blockbuster movie musical Mamma Mia!

    Other movie credits include Dear John, Letters to Juliet, Gone, Red Riding Hood, and Les Miserables.

    She is also slated to play Mary, the mother to Wendy Darling and her brothers, in the new Peter Pan film adaptation, Pan.

  • Mary-Louise Parker Writes Memoir to the Men in Her Life

    From Fried Green Tomatoes to Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker has had her share of fame. Now the 50-year-old actress is writing a memoir entitled Dear Mr. You, a book is based on letters written to significant others who have passed through her life.

    One possible book subject includes actor Billy Crudup (Big Fish), with whom Parker had a relationship from 1997 to 2003. The two lived together for seven years after which they costarred in the 1996 stage revival of Bus Stop. Although reps for the actor deny the rumor, Crudup is said to have left Parker for another woman (Claire Danes) when she was seven months pregnant with their son, William Atticus.

    Another subject possibility is Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Parker met Morgan on the set of Weeds and the couple began dating in December 2006 but broke up soon after.

    “We’re not together anymore,” Morgan told People magazine. “Everything’s fine, but it just didn’t work out. Wrong time in both our lives.”

    However, Parker and Morgan rekindled their love and became engaged in February 2008, only to break up again in April.

    Parker began dating singer Charlie Mars in 2009 after attending one of his shows and even appeared in his video, “Listen to the Darkside.”

    “It was at the Soho House in New York,” she said. “I just met him briefly that night—a bunch of people went to dinner after, and I just talked to him briefly, then he called maybe a month-and-a-half later and asked if I wanted to be in his video.”

    Dear Mr. You will be published by Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner.

    “I am so honored and thrilled to be working with Scribner and in the company of such wonderful writers,” Parker said.

    “From Frank McCourt to Jeannette Walls to Anjelica Huston, Scribner loves a great memoirist, and Mary-Louise Parker is one,” said senior vice president and publisher Nan Graham. “Her writing is magnificent; the conceit—a memoir in letters to men—is wholly original and brilliantly executed.”

    Along with her well-loved role of Nancy Botwin, the marijuana-growing soccer mom on Weeds, Parker has appeared in roles on television shows such as The West Wing and Angels in America, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress as well as a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

    Parker also won a Tony Award in 2000 for her portrayal of Catherine in the Broadway production of Proof.

    Dear Mr. You will be released in fall 2015.

  • Mary-Louise Parker Writing Memoir, ‘Dear Mr. You,’ By Penning Letters to the Men in Her Life

    Mary-Louise Parker Writing Memoir, ‘Dear Mr. You,’ By Penning Letters to the Men in Her Life

    Mary-Louise Parker is writing a book about the “significant men in her life,” which may or may not include juicy details about exes Billy Crudup and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

    The book, Dear Mr. You, will detail the Emmy-, Tony-, and Golden Globe-winning actress’ life through a series of letters penned to the most important men in her life.

    The book will be released by Simon and Schuster imprint Scribner in fall 2015.

    “I am so honored and thrilled to be working with Scribner and in the company of such wonderful writers,” said Parker, 50, in a Scribner press release.

    “From Frank McCourt to Jeannette Walls to Anjelica Huston, Scribner loves a great memoirist, and Mary-Louise Parker is one,” said senior vice president and publisher Nan Graham. “Her writing is magnificent; the concept—a memoir in letters to men—is wholly original and brilliantly executed.”

    Parker was in a seven-year relationship with actor Billy Crudup and gave birth to their son, William Atticus, in 2004, three months after the couple split up. She also once dated her Weeds co-star, actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan and singer Charlie Mars.

    Parker is known for her film roles in Grand Canyon and Fried Green Tomatoes, and for her Broadway production of Proof, which earned her a Tony Award. She also won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for her 2004 performance in the HBO miniseries Angels in America. She won a second Golden Globe in 2006 for her performance on Weeds.