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DreamWorks Prepping Gershwin Biopic
Published 10/29/2009 by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS
By Variety DreamWorks is tuning up a biopic on composer George Gershwin. It has picked up a screenplay by Tony-winning playwright and "Memoirs of a Geisha" scribe Doug Wright. Marc Platt ("Wicked") is producing alongside singer-pianist Michael Feinstein.
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