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Tue May 27, 2008 8:36am EDT

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A New York anchor's recent F-bomb on live TV hasn't seemed to hurt her career.

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Sue Simmons, a fixture at NBC-owned WNBC for almost 30 years, caused a stir this month when she swore during a live promo for the station's 11 p.m. newscast. She apologized for the remark during the newscast and then again in a statement. The controversy didn't stop WNBC from giving Simmons the choice 6 p.m. newscast duties with co-anchor Chuck Scarborough.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lindsay Sloane has been cast as one of the female leads in "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy," a comedy about a 30-year-old man who enlists his friends for a night of shenanigans at the family vacation home his parents have decided to sell.

Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte and Leslie Bibb star in the indie project. Sloane will play a religious high school teacher who winds up at the party.

Sloane is in production on "She's Out of My League" and will next be seen in the upcoming in "The Six Wives of Henry Lefay."

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