{"id":19160,"date":"2012-03-07T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=19160"},"modified":"2015-03-09T17:26:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:26:19","slug":"woody-allen-to-pimp-john-turturro-in-new-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/07\/woody-allen-to-pimp-john-turturro-in-new-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen To Pimp John Turturro In New Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You could probably count the number of films that Woody Allen has appeared in where he wasn\u2019t the director. In fact the last time he did so was back in 1991 with Scenes From A Mall<\/strong> with Bette\u00a0 Midler. (Or 1998, if you want to count his vocal work in the animated Antz<\/strong>.) If we take Allen\u2019s signing on to a project where he won\u2019t be in charge as a positive sign, then we should perhaps start looking forward to actor\/director John Turturro\u2019s Fading Gigolo as it is being reported that Allen will be joining the cast of the indie comedy.<\/p>\n

According to Variety<\/em>, Allen and Turturro will be playing best friends who turn to gigoloing as a way to supplement their meager income. Arousing the suspicion of the Hasidic community where they live, the two adopt fake names. Complications arise in which characters to be played by Sharon Stone and Modern Family\u2019s Sofia Vergara will figure.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that the two have worked together. Allen cast Turturro in a small role in his 1986 classic Hannah And Her Sisters<\/strong>. Allen has also contributed one of three one-act plays that will make up Relatively Speaking<\/em>, Turturro\u2019s Broadway directorial debut set to open next October.<\/p>\n

Production is expected to get underway next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allen will learn that its a hard life for a pimp.<\/div>\n

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