I like the Dustin Hoffman movie on Lenny Bruce. Certainly Hicks was more critical of popular culture while Lenny was more concerned with obscenity law but I don't think it's entirely impossible for Ron Howard to do Hicks justice. And Russell Crowe, I must say, has won me over to his less epic roles with American Gangster.
Usually it is the weirdest casting that interests me most, like Heath Ledger as the Joker.
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