John Updike

Rebecca Romijn has just signed on to co-star in the new ABC television pilot Eastwick.

Romijn will play a character named Roxie in the pilot based on John Updike’s novel and the fabulous film, The Witches of Eastwick.

Lindsay Price has also been cast, which we’re pretty sure lays to rest any final question about whether or not Lipstick Jungle will ever make a comeback.

That would be a big fat no. As in no more fabulous Robert Buckley semi-nudity.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike has died from lung cancer at the age of 76.

Updike published more than 50 books during a career spanning six decades, won numerous awards, was a regular fixture on best-seller lists and had his work immortalized in celluloid in 1987 when his book The Witches of Eastwick was adapted into a film starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer and Cher.

His death was announced on Tuesday in a statement from his publisher Alfred A. Knopf.

RIP, John.

—Sasha Perl-Raver