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Harvey Weinstein Wants Bill Murray to Play Him in the Movies

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Have you noticed that Harvey Weinstein has been more public this year than ever before? The co-chairman of the Weinstein Company has won back to back Best Picture Oscars with “The King’s Speech” and “The Artist.” His company’s debt is settled and he’s in a good place for this fall with four potential hits: “The Master,” “Django Unchained,” “Lawless,” “Killing Them Softly.” He has also the leading foreign film, “The Intouchables,” which has won raves and brought in lots of people to theaters. Everyone loves this movie. Plus this fall he’ll also release “The Sapphires” featuring music by Sam & Dave. In this new interview in Fandango online, he says he will only make a movie in which he’s a character if Bill Murray plays him. It’s not a bad idea. http://www.fandango.com/movieblog/exclusive-interview-harvey-weinstein-on-intouchables-his-career-and-what-comes-next-718168.html

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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