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| Modern Family Star Eric Stonestreet Will Bring the Sad Saga of Fatty Arbuckle to HBO | |||
| In his pilot for HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Martin Scorsese includes scenes from a Fatty Arbuckle movie in which the legendary silent-film star is seen burying a bottle of booze. Now, Vulture has learned that the pay cable network is planning to devote a lot more air time to Arbuckle and his legacy: Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet is attached to star as Arbuckle in The Day the Laughter Stopped, an HBO Films project in development, which is being written by John Adams scribe Kirk Ellis with Barry Levinson attached to direct. The project, based on the book of the same name by David A. Yallop, promises to detail how, virtually overnight, false accusations of rape and murder against Arbuckle transformed one of the time's most popular and highest paid Hollywood stars into a showbiz pariah. Read More » | |||
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