Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks
I'd actually heard of this on Saturday, due to having a Google News Alert in place on "Bill Hicks," but didn't realize it was a news scoop til the British papers went mad for it. Hicks has always been more famous in the UK—the UK publisher sold over 100,000 copies of Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks, whereas we've done only about 15,000). So yesterday I got about another 25 more news alerts , giving me to realize I'd've almost made the blog a semi-genuine news source had I posted about it right away.
Instead, I'll just exploit others, like a true publisher, and just quote New York magazine.
In what will surely make Bill Hicks's zombie corpse rise up from hell in black-hearted rage, Russell Crowe has revealed that he has a "project based on the life of [the late] comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer." True, Hicks and Crowe both seem to have had an affinity for alcohol and picking fights with strangers, but Hicks might agree that a commercial biopic comes pretty close to "suckin' Satan's pecker." [SMH via Comingsoon]
And the requisite YouTube embed, a publisher's favorite: