Biopics -- and Rahm Emmanuel -- are the new black. HBO, just off the Emmy-festooned John Adams miniseries and in the process of making a Katherine Graham biopic, is bringing comedian Sam Kinison's messy and brief life to the small screen. From Variety:
"HBO launched comic Sam Kinison's star, and now the pay web will memorialize his life and death with 'Brother Sam,' a film Tom Shadyac will direct.
Dan Fogler will play the manic comic.
Basis for the telepic is 'Brother Sam: The Short, Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison,' a memoir written by his brother and manager, Bill Kinison, and Steve Delsohn. A new script has been written by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the writer-directors of 'American Splendor.'
"... Kinison's star was launched by an appearance on HBO's Rodney Dangerfield-hosted 'Young Comedians' special in 1984."
Formerly a preacher, Sam Kinison's reckless life -- as heard in his drunken early morning appearances on The Howard Stern Show -- ended abruptly in 1992. In a memorable Howard Stern appearance, he got drunk on champagne at, like, 10 am, and ended up missing an appearance on the Joan Rivers TV show. Rivers, irate, took her camera crew to his hotel. Kinison ended up speaking to Rivers -- through the hotel door -- blaming his non-appearance on "bad chinese food." Of course, if you heard the Stern show that morning it was apparent that it was cheap champagne and not "bad chinese food" that kept Kinison from fulfilling his agreement with Rivers.
One also wonders if the biopic will include the episode in which Jessica Hahn, his then-girlfriend, had to clean up a hotel room in which he had, ehr, soiled the bedsheets.
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