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When hugh met drew: Drew Barrymore stars as muse to a has-been pop idol, played by Hugh Grant, in Music Lyrics.(HEADLINERS MOVIES)

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who better to portray a washed-up pop star in need of a career boost than Hugh Grant--the actor who made the canniest comeback ever? In the upcoming romantic comedy Music & Lyrics, Grant plays flagging eighties crooner Alex Fletcher, who has been enlisted to write a hit song for the pop princess of the moment but is crippled by writer's block.

Rather than resort to plagiarism, Alex solicits the help of Sophie Fisher, an eccentric poetess played by Drew Barrymore. "Hugh's character was in a Wham!-like band, and he's like Andrew Ridgeley, who sort of ...

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