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Title: Maybe soon a movie?
Review: Arbuckle wasn't the greatest but he was the first comic superstar. He was just a great clown and a really nice guy who went from a tragic childhood to stardom and back to tragedy. There is some tremendous writing here, such as "What do you do when the world thinks you're a monster and you know it's the world that is monstrous." Stahl also scores with, "Everything he lost came back except the delusion that it was really his and the belief that it mattered." Much of this portrait of Arbuckle is conjecture but it is a very believable and sympathetic portrait.If this book becomes a movie then I suggest that Roscoe can be played by Oliver Platt or Kevin James with John Goodman as his psychotic Dad.
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