George Gershwin is one of those names that almost everybody knows, but so few of us (including myself) know very much about. He was a composer. He was responsible for a lot of Broadway plays. He wrote a lot of famous songs. That's about all I know without looking him up.
Steven Spielberg apparently has an eye toward helping to alleviate our collective ignorance of Gershwin, who actually died of a brain tumor when he was only 38. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that it's one of three projects that Spielberg has his sights on for Dreamworks, and that there's actually someone already lined up to play Gershwin: Zachary Quinto, otherwise known as Spock 2.0 or Sylar.
I'm not sure, really, how interesting a Gershwin biopic might be -- he's most famous for creating a large body of work in a very short period of time (along with his brother, Ira Gerswhin, who...
Steven Spielberg apparently has an eye toward helping to alleviate our collective ignorance of Gershwin, who actually died of a brain tumor when he was only 38. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that it's one of three projects that Spielberg has his sights on for Dreamworks, and that there's actually someone already lined up to play Gershwin: Zachary Quinto, otherwise known as Spock 2.0 or Sylar.
I'm not sure, really, how interesting a Gershwin biopic might be -- he's most famous for creating a large body of work in a very short period of time (along with his brother, Ira Gerswhin, who...
- 2/1/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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