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Wanted: Larger-than-life star - Brief Article
Advocate, The, April 25, 2000
BRITISH PERFORMANCE ARTIST LEIGH BOWERY was the toast of London's art, music, fashion, dance, and theater worlds before he died of AIDS-related complications on New Year's Eve 1994. But stateside Bowery is hardly a household name. That may soon change, thanks to John Hart and Jeff Sharp. The New York City-based producers behind the indie hit Boys Don't Cry have partnered with London's FilmFour to develop a biopic based on the Sue Tilley book Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon.
Step one will be to find an actor who can fill the massive diva's gigantic frocks. "I'd love to see someone who has the charisma, the larger-than-life personality that Leigh did," says Sharp. Adds Robert Kessel, Hart Sharp Entertainment's head of production: "Jeff wants Robbie Williams. I think someone like Russell Crowe could do the part too. He's an amazing actor and an amazing chameleon. Although certainly the parts he's done have never shown that kind of flamboyance. I mean, can he dance?"
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