Banned Fatty Arbuckle Film Returns to Bay Area
It’s been a big week of news for someone who rarely makes headlines anymore, silent era film star Fatty Arbuckle.
On Tuesday, Vulture reported that Modern Family cast member Eric Stonestreet has made a deal to star in a biopic of the disgraced big man for HBO, with Barry Levinson directing. Now comes word via the San Francisco Chronicle that Leap Year, the 1921 silent that was banned in the wake of Arbuckle’s trumped up underage sex scandal, will enjoy a very rare screening in the Bay Area on August 27.
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