Picking Up on His Career

Luke Wilson, whose brilliant Royal Tenenbaums and entertaining Family Stone played on cable over the holidays (a lot), is finally getting back to serious work.

And not a moment too soon, IMHO: Seeing him in those AT&T commercials, honest work and all, makes me tear up a little.

Wilso has joined Mike White’s new HBO comedy pilot Enlightened, which stars Laura Dern as a self-destructive woman who, following a meltdown, has a spiritual awakening and becomes determined to live an enlightened life, creating havoc at home and work.

Owen’s brother will play Levi, her unkempt ex-husband who has a drug problem.

Sounds kind interesting, no?

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