{"id":557,"date":"2008-06-11T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=557"},"modified":"2012-10-22T22:30:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:30:22","slug":"whos-your-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/11\/whos-your-buddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Your BUDDY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To most people, Buddy Cianci is the name of the junior high school in <em>Family Guy<\/em>&#8216;s fictional Rhode Island town of Quahog.<\/p>\n<p>To residents of the non-fictional Rhode Island, from where <em>Family Guy<\/em> creator Seth MacFarlane originally hails, Buddy Cianci is a colorful and controversial (to put it mildly) politician who was twice removed from his position as mayor of Providence for various illegal shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p>Having already been the subject of a documentary that made the festival rounds last year, Cianci\u2019s story is in the process of becoming a major motion picture, entitled appropriately enough <strong>Cianci<\/strong>, with Michael Corrente directing and David Mamet providing a screenplay from Michael Staton\u2019s biography of the twice former mayor. Oliver Platt is signed to star as Cianci alongside Dermot Mulroney, Adam Goldberg, Bradley Cooper and Edward Burns. <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> stated today that Robin Williams is currently in negotiations for a role, schedule permitting.<\/p>\n<p>Cianci was born and grew up in the Providence suburb of Cranston, around the same time my mother did. In fact, Cianci was a teenager in the mid-1950s when my grandfather was a one-term mayor of the town. Did that have anything to do with how Cianci turned out as a politician? I certainly hope not. But it does mean that this is a project whose development I will be keeping an interested eye on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">To most people, Buddy Cianci is the name of the junior high school in Family Guy&#8216;s fictional Rhode Island town of Quahog. 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