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In this flat, sour, and contrived comedy, Roger (Jon Heder), a timid New York City parking cop who is overmatched at work and in love, signs up for classes with a macho confidence guru, Dr. P. (Billy Bob Thornton), and, taught to find his inner lion, gets up the nerve to ask out his secret dream girl, his Australian grad-student neighbor, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett).
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Piper last worked with Prebble on the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
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James D'Arcy, who starred in ITV2 opposite Billie Piper in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, has been cast as Edward VIII.
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He has also acted opposite Piper in the follow-up, The Shadow in the North, and in ITV2's Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
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Piper, 29, also gained acclaim for ITV's Secret Diary of a Call Girl, in which she played the high-class London escort Belle de Jour.
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Annabel Pitcher has been nominated for her second novel, Ketchup Clouds, about a girl with a terrible secret who confesses all to a death row convict, while Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt follows Jenna, who has been left permanently scarred following a car crash that killed her best friend.
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The Noes on the other hand hope that their secret weapon could be Geri Halliwell, the singer and former Spice Girl.
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The first film, about a high school basketball star who falls in love with a girl and is torn between his on-court duties and his secret yearning to sing duets with her, was seen by 170 million people around the world.
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It was the The Diary of a Young Girl, which was reportedly rejected 16 times before being published under the title The Secret Annex.
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Marisa Miller made the rounds as 2008's Sports Illustrated cover girl, and Karolina Kurkova went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote Victoria's Secret's fashion show, but that's about it.
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Lily was a secretive, serious girl, even more so now that her mother had been discovered to have her own serious secret.
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