Yup my favorite comic is finally attracting serious Hollywood attention.
A film is being developed by ummmmm RUSSELL CROWE????
Brilliant actor but I just don't see it....
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Russell-Crowe-To-Be-Bill-Hicks-9892.html
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Bill Hicks Movie?
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Russell Crowe??? 
Hmmm, I'm not sure who could portray Bill Hicks, but Russell Crowe??
(I guess you could always get Dennis Leary to play him! 
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Can't ever see this being a successful movie. It's one of those things where you should say the man was funny, and not try to replicate.
They'll be doing a biopic of Tommy Cooper next.
DJ Diamond wrote: You think so? Just like that?
Just read a Wikipedia entry on him, and he'd make a great biopic subject. Sadly, he's unplayable, I suspect.
And someone is planning to do such a thing.
unplayable? Most likely-yes. Bill Hicks was an original. He was not a robot and never compromised. Hicks was complex and controversial.
Bill pushed all the buttons
Sex? yes Drugs? You betcha Religion? uh huh Sexuality? Sure Politics? a lot of fun
His swagger was he was that good. Comedians are funny. But few are engaged. They have a point to make like a good preacher. I think I feel I laugh like a catharsis. that was Bill Hicks.
No one can translate that. I don't want to be a robot. Neither did Bill Hicks. He did and was as free as we wish we were.
I am pissed because W Bush would have provided Bill with decades of material.
No movie about Bill Hicks will ever truly get him...
i met bill hicks in edinburgh 17 years ago. he signed something for me and i gave it to one of the lesbians.
if she's lost it i'll throttle her with my bare hands.
