Article: BEATTY TO PLAY ASTRONAUT IN `OCEAN'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Marilyn Beck Creators Syndicate Inc. Stacy Jenel Smith and Stephanie DuBois contribute to this report.

Warren Beatty will be heading into outer space.

Beatty, currently shooting Town and Country, will be produce and star in the long-in-the-works Ocean of Storms. This is the word from Aaron Sorkin, who's working on the script about an aging astronaut who returns to the space program to recapture his former glory.

The award-winning scribe (A Few Good Men, The American President) sued Beatty and Fox last year for not paying him fully for his rewrite and polish services on the script for Ocean of Storms. But that's all been resolved. ``The ...

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