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"Winchell"
Role: June Winchell
Date: November 21, 1998
Status: Completed/DVD
Genre: Biography/Drama
Writer: Herman Klurfeld/Scott Abbott
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast:
Megan Mullally.... June Winchell
Stanley Tucci.... Walter Winchell
Glenne Headly.... Dallas Wayne
Paul Giamatti.... Herman Kurfeld
Christopher Plummer.... Franklin D. Roosevelt
Plot Outline:
Biography of 1950s gossip columnist and radio show announcer Walter Winchell (Stanley Tucci) who wrote in a very unorthodox style, but grabbed the public's attention with his dirt on public figures. However, as shown, he lived far from a clean life himself. He lived out of a hotel room away from his family where he fraternized with a known prostitute (Glynne Headley) who was, of course, seeking to make her break in show business. Paul Giamatti co-stars as Winchell's long-suffering ghost writer and friend who drew his egotistical attacks.
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