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Justin Timberlake to Play Casablanca Records Founder

By | The Rolling Stone Blog – Mon, Sep 26, 2011 12:33 PM EDT

Justin Timberlake has signed on to star in Spinning Gold,
a biopic based on the life of record producer and Casablancas Records
mogul Neil Bogart. Timberlake will also serve as a producer on the film,
which will be written and directed by Bogart's son Timothy Scott
Bogart.

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The
movie will tell the rags-to-riches story of Bogart, who grew up poor in
Brooklyn but went on to launch the careers of Kiss, the Village People,
Donna Summer and Parliament in the Seventies. Bogart passed away from
cancer at the age of 39 in 1982.

 

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