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'Casting the Buddy movie

Local wags pick their dream casts for the upcoming film of The Prince of Providence

By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | August 3, 2006

	Rich Lupo Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel	Steven Feinberg RI Film & TV office	Jim Taricani WJAR-TV reporter	Bob Kerr ProJo Columnist	Phillipe & Jorge Cool, Cool World denizens
BUDDY CIANCI
SHELIA CIANCI
RAY DELEO
FRANK CORRENTE
DENNIS AIKEN
ANTHONY FREITAS
RICHARD ROSE
RICHARD EGBERT
JUDGE TORRES
DAVID EAD

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'Casting the Buddy movie

Oh dear, David Lynch would have none of this conventional casting. Here's the way it should go: Buddy Cianci ......Rosie O'Donnell Sheila Cianci .....Xaviera Hollander Ray DeLeo .........Paul Sorvino Frank Corrente ....Uma Therman Dennis Aiken ......Richard Simmons Anthony Freitas ...George Germon Richard Rose ......RuPaul Richard Egbert ....Michael Richards Judge Torres ......Giancarlo Gianinni David Ead .........Vincent Pastore PLUS OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS David Cicilline ...Linda Hunt Jack Cicilline ....Harvey Firestone (it would explain a lot) Fred Lippet .......Dame Edna Charlie Mansolilo .Dom Deluise Joe Bevilacqua, Jr..Jack Cicilline, Jr. (it would explain even more) Myrth York ........Edward Hermann Richard Autiello ..Pat Cooper Joe Paolino .......Danny DeVito Lincoln Almond ....Fred Gwynne Andrew Annaldo ....Susan Sarandon Bruce Melucci .....Jim Brady Lloyd Griffin .....Ray Rickman Charlie Bakst .....Wally Cox Michael Metcalf ...Freddie Prinze Providence's Arts District ... Crescent Park NOW we're talking Oscar time!

By A. Beatini on 08/04/2006 at 12:57:45

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