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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 01, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A12 A 12 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015 ENTERTAINMENT winnipegfreepress. com By DOUG CAMILLI / tell camilli@ gmail. com the Scene A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT Big Bang star headed to Broadway JIM Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory , will play the Almighty in a Broadway production called An Act of God . It's based on a comic book called The Last Testament: A Memoir by God . David Javerbaum, who wrote the book and has a cupboard full of Emmys and other awards ( mainly for comedy writing), is adapting his book for the stage. Performances begin May 5 at the Studio 54 theatre in Manhattan. Downton done after this season: report THE British hit Downton Abbey will indeed end with this season, an anonymous source told the Daily Mirror . This will surprise just about nobody since the show, now in its sixth series, has pretty plainly run out of petrol. Showrunner Julian Fellowes wants to move on ( to a project about 19th- century New York), and most of the stars are lining up new projects, the source said. New York in the 1800s, eh? Surely it won't be tycoons and servants, will it? Past marriages didn't count: Penn MADONNA didn't count and neither did Robin Wright, Sean Penn tells the British edition of Esquire magazine. The reporter asked him about remarrying - which he is widely expected to do any day now, with Charlize Theron. " Yes, I'd get married again," he answered. " You say I've been married twice before, but I've been married under circumstances where I was less informed than I am today, so I wouldn't even consider it a third marriage, I'd consider it a first marriage on its own terms if I got married again." He also said he has " not been happy in a single relationship" until this one. After a fruitless engagement to Elizabeth McGovern, Penn was married to Madge from 1985- 89, and to Wright from 1996 to 2010. Ryder on board with sequel DOES the world really need a sequel to Beetlejuice ? Winona Ryder seems to think so. The 1988 hit comedy gave the teenage Ryder her first big boost toward stardom, so of course she's fond of it. When somebody from Huffington Post asked her about a sequel the other day, she said, " As far as I know, it's gonna happen." The original also starred Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. Keaton has said he would do a sequel if director Tim Burton is in charge. Burton has expressed interest, so maybe this is for real. Fourth child for Tucci IT'S a boy for Stanley Tucci, one of my favourite actors, and his wife Felicity Blunt, a literary agent and the sister of Emily. The lad, named Matteo Oliver Tucci, was born last Sunday in London. " I believe he is mine. We are all thrilled to welcome him to this cold, cruel world," Tucci told People , the first part, at least, evidently being a joke. He went on to say, " We are all thrilled that he is here and healthy." Tucci has three kids - 14- year- old twins and a 12- year- old, with his first wife Kate, who died in 2009. Emily Blunt, who starred with Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada , set him up with her sister. Keira's mom misspelled her name KEIRA Knightley tells Elle magazine why she has that strange first name ( Kiera being the more common spelling): " I was meant to be named ' Kiera,' after a Russian ice skater who was on the TV one day," she said. " My dad fancied her and nicked her name for me. " But it was my mum who went to register my birth, and she accidentally spelled ' ei' instead of ' ie' because my mum's crap at spelling. Apparently, when she came back he said: ' What the ( bad word)? You've spelt her name wrong!' " The skater was Kiera Ivanova, who won a medal for the Soviet Union at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics. The actress was born 13 months later. Hmm. I wonder if Mom's spelling " mistake" might have involved just a trace of resentment her husband wanted to name the baby after some cutie he'd seen on TV. Movie sounds simply ridiculous LIKE almost everyone else on earth, I'm sick and tired of Adam Sandler. But I might have to make an exception for Ridiculous 6 , a movie he's making for Netflix. Here's why: TheWrap. com reports the cast will include Dan Aykroyd, Steve Buscemi, Whitney Cummings, Will Forte, Taylor Lautner, Jon Lovitz, Nick Nolte, Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson, Steve Zahn, comedian Lavell Crawford of Breaking Bad fame and Vanilla Ice, as well as various lesser lights, and Sandler himself. It's a parody of ensemble westerns such as 1960' s The Magnificent Seven . Vanilla Ice plays Mark Twain. Overall, then, we have the recipe for a train wreck of historic proportions. This thing may make Johnny Depp's The Lone Ranger look good. Production starts this month. There's no air date yet. A_ 12_ Feb- 01- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A12 1/ 31/ 15 9: 14: 33 PM ;