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Demi's Back, and "Angels" Has Her

Ready for more Demi Moore?

The smoky-voiced Brat Packer who became Hollywood's highest-paid actress in the mid 1990s, only to dig in with the potatoes in Idaho in the late 1990s, is set to return to the big screen in her first major flick in five years.

Moore, who turns 40 in November, will appear as an evil "fallen angel" in the Charlie's Angels sequel, Charlie's Angels 2: Halo, according to Thursday's trade papers.

Moore's part is described as small, but there's nothing small about Halo, which reunites Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu in the would-be blockbuster follow-up to 2000's $125 million grosser.

Production, with director McG returning to the helm, began in June. Halo is tentatively set to be released June 27, 2003.

Moore joins newbies Justin Theroux and Bernie Mac in the cast. Theroux plays Barrymore's love interest, in place of Tom Green, who handled that job in the original film, but subsequently became the producer-star's real-life ex-husband. Mac takes over Bosley duties for Bill Murray, who reportedly had anything but a heavenly time making the first movie.

Original Angel (O.A.) Jaclyn Smith is also set to appear, although it's not known in what role. Smith played Kelly Garrett, the pretty one (as opposed to Sabrina, the smart one, and Jill, the sex-pot one) in the original 1976-81 series. No O.A.s appeared in the first movie.

But it's Moore's casting that's making headlines. It was she who pioneered the eight-figure salaries that the actress likes of Diaz today command.

On the strength of sexy hits like Indecent Proposal and Disclosure, Moore earned her highest paycheck for 1996's Striptease--$12.5 million.

But that film, released within months of another infamous scantily clad stinker named Showgirls, failed to take off--take it all off--at the box office, earning just $32.8 million to go with bunches of bad reviews.

She followed up Striptease with the Ridley Scott-directed G.I. Jane (1997), which fared slightly better in both the review and business department. Also that year, she appeared in Woody Allen's ensemble comedy Deconstructing Harry.

But after that, it was less of Moore.

She separated from husband Bruce Willis in 1998, and retreated to the private sector, becoming a fixture on the Idaho social scene, such as it is, with their three daughters. The Willis-Moore divorce became official in 2000.

Since Deconstructing Harry, Moore's output has consisted of a little-seen art-house flick, 2000's Passion of Mind, Disney's straight-to-video animated The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and a dance-track contribution to a 1999 album by self-help guru Deepak Chopra.

Moore's film career dates back to the early 1980s, when she was doing the Brat Pack thing in About Last Night... and the Demi-classic St. Elmo's Fire.

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