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Is Ex-Mayor Rudy Ready for His Close-Up?
The New Yorker who became an international symbol of strong leadership is to be the subject of a TV movie from the people who brought you "Jesus."
Originally posted Wednesday January 23, 2002 01:25 PM EST
Will "The Rudolph Giuliani Story" be must-see TV? Producers of TV movies on Jesus, Moses, Julius Caesar and the Bible's Joseph (that one took an Emmy) certainly hope so, reports New York's Daily News. The paper says that journalist Andrew Kirtzman's 2000 biography of the ex-mayor of the city, "Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City," is being adapted for the small screen. "We are talking about a drama based on fact that will give people an understanding of who this man is and how he brought us through a terrible time," producer Russell Kaken of the Connecticut-based Five Mile River Films told the Daily News, referring to Giuliani's heroic leadership during and after Sept. 11. And who would play the 57-year-old mayor who, despite his dedication to duty, isn't exactly a Robert Redford? "Everyone says that Robert Duvall would be perfect," author Kirtzman, who is a newsman with New York 1, an all-news cable channel, told the Daily News. (NY1, like PEOPLE, is part of AOL Time Warner.) Kirtzman would not disclose how much he is being paid for the film rights. Giuliani, meanwhile, had no comment, but it appears he has already gone Hollywood -- spending two days last week in California, appearing on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," hosting a fund-raiser for the Twin Towers Fund and filming parts of an HBO documentary about the attacks. Besides Duvall, the News went on to consider other actors for the role: John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Michael Moriarty and Stanley Tucci, who just won a Golden Globe for his turn as Adolf Eichmann on HBO's Nazi expose "Conspiracy" and who, like Giuliani, has a challenged hairline.
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