is directing the movie, we can expect to see the moment when a young Hugh Hefner decides to create a new system-shaking magazine with a brave taboo-busting ideology recreated cinematically into a scene where Hugh Hefner runs into a gangster s lair, accidentally insults everyone and winds up in the middle of a hare-brained gang-fight that only his nimble Asian partner can rescue him from. famous singers to semi-famous singers who died wanking to poisoned Russian spies. Biopics are so common now that there s even a Missy Elliott biopic in the works, even though the only people who d go and see that are the immediate family of Missy Elliott and parents who want to terrify their naughty children.
By and large, it s easy to do a good biopic of a musician - get a famous actor to do a passable impression, slap a few hits on the soundtrack and you re ready for the Oscars. But what about a biopic set around the world of publishing? Deadlines and inky fingers aren t that many people s idea of fun - unless you re making , which we re told some people quite like.
At the other end of the scale is , a movie set around the magazine business which largely failed because it forgot that nobody wants to see flashing her gargoyle boobies every three seconds.
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