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Article: Showtime to Make Movie About Jayson Blair
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- October 15, 2003
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DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
AP Online
10-15-2003
Dateline: NEW YORK
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 some three dozen 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 ...