'Toddlers & Tiaras' Star Nabs Darla Role in 'Little Rascals' Movie
by Borys Kit

Universal Studios Home Entertainment is bringing back The Little
Rascals, the adventures of misfit kids who first took the world by
storm in the 1920s and 30s with black and white shorts produced by
Hal Roach.

Doris Roberts, Greg Germann, and Lex Medlin are among the adult stars
that have been cast in the still-untitled straight to home feature
which starts shooting this week.

And while the roles of scheming rascal Spanky, the dreamer Alfalfa and
the enigmatic Buckwheat have yet to be cast or are going to unknowns,
the part of Darla, the cute little girl who is the object of Alfalfa s
eye has gone to Eden Wood.

Wood was the star of Toddlers & Tiaras, TLC s show about beauty
pageant queens. Wood then went on to star in her own spin-off,  Eden s
World, which ran on Logo and followed her as she tried to make it big
in show business in New York.

Looks like she s on the right track, with the movie being her first
dramatic role.

Roberts is playing a bakery-running grandma who sees the kids as her
children.

German is a rich guy who schemes to take over the bakery so he can
build a putting green behind his mega-mansion.

Medlin will be a police officer with a crush on the kids teacher,
Miss Crabtree.

Alex Zamm, who directed Inspector Gadget 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2, is helming the movie. Zamm also wrote it with partner Billy
Robertson. Mike Elliot is producing.

Roberts, best known for Everybody Loves Raymond, was seen in Madea s
Witness Protection. She is repped by WME and Del, Shaw.

Ally McBeal star Germann, repped by Innovative and the Collective,
next appears in Here Comes the Boom with Kevin James.

Medlin was one of the stars of USA S Drop Dead Diva and is repped by
Pop Art Management and Progressive Artists Agency.