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Forest Whitaker to play Louis Armstrong in biopic

Oscar winner to play the role of the jazz great

Thu 09 Oct, 2008

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Fingers crossed that this turns out to be a great film and that they don't balls it up. Armstrong was an amazing character and jazz was considered outrageous and shocking at the time, so let's hope the film doesn't end up as a sanitised schmaltz-fest.

Thu 09 Oct, 2008

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