25 September 2007
Richard Pryor’s widow hired Brad Kane to write a biopic about the famed comedian. Hollywood just loved the writer’s work last year. Now it’s starting to look like the scripts could actually get made.
The best writers are skilled ventriloquists. Just the same, it’s a bit jarring to meet Brad Kane. The screenwriter of two gritty, popular, unproduced screenplays — a Richard Pryor biopic and an epic drama about a black pimp in 1980s New York City — Kane turns out to be a white former child (...)