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The future of Fox's updated feature film version of "The A Team" -- rumored to have Bruce Willis and Ice Cube circling -- became uncertain with the departure of director John Singleton from the project last month. But one thing's for sure: The original "A Team's" Mr. T wants nothing to do with the movie, to be produced by creator Stephen J. Cannell, unless he stars.

Mr. T Says No Cameo, Bruce Willis and Ice Cube "A Team" Circling (Image: Wenn)

Being invited to do a cameo would be, he figures, something like a person who got divorced and then remarried telling their former spouse they could come by to say hello for a few minutes. "It would be insulting," he says. "If I'm not going to play B.A., I don't want to be there."

The old "A Team" team shows up in a clip in Disney's animated "Bolt" -- and that, says Mr. T, he's very happy about. "They did a great job on the movie. It's a lot of fun."

ON A LIGHT NOTE: Jack McBrayer's hoping Paul Scheer shows up again on his "30 Rock." "He's my improv buddy from way back," notes the actor, who plays TV-lovin' NBC page Kenneth on the series. McBrayer and Scheer are veterans of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre troupe. "I was so thrilled when they brought him on as my arch nemesis. I think it's fun to see someone Kenneth does not like -- it happens so rarely."

THE INDUSTRY EYE: Patricia Heaton will be back in the series game again -- if her soon-to-shoot pilot, "The Middle," gets a pickup by ABC. The former "Everybody Loves Raymond"' and "Back to You" leading lady will play a middle-age, middle-class wife and mom in middle America.

Lifetime TV has a Nora Roberts tribute soon to go into production, which is being directed by Martha Coolidge.

Casting is underway for Nasser Entertainment's remake of John Wayne's 1947 chestnut, "Angel and the Badman," about a tough, revenge-minded gunslinger who finds himself being nursed back to health by a sweet Quaker girl (hence the ad line: "He lived only for revenge ... She lived only for his love!") They've been looking for the actor who can fill The Duke's boots. Lotsa luck.