Wednesday Jan 19, 2005 8:00am EST
People Magazine
By Stephen M. Silverman
JACKSON GRANT/SIPA
CAST: Julia Roberts has her next role set, and it's a leggy one Ð though she needn't worry about her shape. The new mom will voice the title role of the spider in the live-action/computer-animated version of E.B. White's classic 1952 children's book, Charlotte's Web, says the Hollywood Reporter. The other voices are no slouches, either: Oprah Winfrey and Cedric the Entertainer (as geese), John Cleese (Samuel the sheep), Steve Buscemi (Rat Templeton), Reba McEntire and Kathy Bates (cows Betsy and Bitsy), and Thomas Haden Church and OutKast's Andre 3000 (slow-witted crows). Dakota Fanning will play Fern, the little farm girl, when filming starts in Australia this month.
