variety.com - 11/18/2008
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TV News: Dan Fogler to portray comic Kinison in biopic -- HBO launched comic Sam Kinison's star, and now the pay web will memorialize his life and death with "Brother Sam," a film Tom Shadyac will direct.
variety.com - 11/18/2008
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variety.com —
Dan Fogler to portray comic Kinison in biopic
HBO launched comic Sam Kinison's star, and now the
pay web will memorialize his life and death with "Brother Sam," a film Tom Shadyac will direct. Dan Fogler will play the manic comic. Basis for the ...
'Brother Sam' set for HBO - Entertainment News, TV News, ...
aintitcool.com - 11/23/2008
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aintitcool.com —
I am – Hercules!! Shari Springer Berman and
Robert Pulcini, the duo behind the big-screen version of
“American Splendor,” are adapting for HBO “Brother Sam,” a biography of hard-living maverick comedian Sam Kinison written by his brother Bill. Tom ...
OHHH!! OH-OHHHHHHHHHHH!! Sam Kinison Biography To Be ...
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Tom Shadyac to direct Sam Kinison biopic.
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... before he turned to comedy and became known for his deliberately sacrilegious routines. So it will be interesting to see how Shadyac treats Kinison's life story when he directs the HBO biopic Brother Sam: The Short, Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison, starring Dan Fogler. The script is by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, whose Harvey Pekar biopic American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis, was one of my favorite films of 2003. Variety has these and other details.
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... Sam Kinison in HBO's biopic of the foul-mouthed funnyman, Brother Sam. The film is based on the book Brother Sam: The Short, Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison, written by Kinison's brother. The writer-directors of American Splendor, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, are writing the screenplay. The prop department is already working overtime to make the huge amounts of fake cocaine it's going to need. [Variety] ...
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