Jumpstart Your Acting Career By Profiting Off The Death Of Tim Russert! [Dead Ringers]

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Randy Quaid Playing Tim Russert in Biopic
Published 7/3/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
It took all of 19 days for Hollywood to jump on the idea to realize a film based on the life of the recently deceased "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert was necessary. Defamer found a casting call for the role of Maureen Orth, the wife of Russert, on Craigslist with the following: Small independent New York based film company is searching for the role of Maureen Orth, the wife of the late Tim Russert. The film will explore the last 24 hours of Russert's life and Golden Globe winner Randy Quaid is set to play the role of Tim Russert. Randy Quaid must be hurting for cash if ...

Randy Quaid to Meet the Press?
Published 7/3/2008 by Monika Bartyzel at Cinematical
... And we thought that the shrinking gap was only between theatrical and DVD releases. Now it's how soon a project can get off the ground after someone passes away. Anna Nicole Smith had barely been gone a month when projects started to cook up on her life and death. Now Defamer has spotted that a super-respectful NINETEEN DAYS after Tim Russert ...

Randy Quaid as Tim Russert? Say it Ain’t So! [Casting Couch]
Published 7/3/2008 by Robin Ruinsky at Film School Rejects
... Today on the Defamer the news is that Randy Quaid has been cast by a small nameless New York production company to play the late and very great newsman Tim Russert. ...