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Article: IT'LL BE SHOWTIME FOR JAYSON BLAIR.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2003
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Showtime has given a movie producer the go-ahead to make a ``dark comedy'' about the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times.
The movie, tentatively titled ``The Jayson Blair Project,'' is expected to be shown on the pay cable outlet next year or early 2005.
Blair resigned as a reporter on May 1 after filing a raft of phony or plagiarized stories. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of the paper's top editor, Howell Raines.
``Although (Blair) is a real person and there's a tragic aspect to this, there's something snarky and odd that is quite comic about the way he operated,'' Jon Maas, who's writing the movie, said Wednesday. ``The ...