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November 9, 2006 — Production Weekly reports "Emmy-winning comedy writer-producer Diane English will make her feature directorial debut on a remake of the 1939 George Cukor film The Women, a hip New York comedy about a tight-knit group of female friends dealing with friendship, divorce and betrayal. Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Anne Hathaway and Candice Bergan are attached to star in the project scheduled to begin filming mid-March in New York.

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shopgirl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man. Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary's catty friends, especially the scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler, who has little room to talk ' she finds herself on a train to Reno and headed for divorce right after Mary. But with a bit of guts and daring, Mary snatches her man right back from Crystal's clutches. "