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IF Brendon Burns' book Fear Of Hat Loss In Las Vegas reads like it would make a great movie, that's because its author hopes it will be. "I wrote it with a film in mind," says the fasttalking Aussie who appears at Cardiff's Glee Comedy Club this week. "I'd like to write the script for the film, or write it with someone else, or I might just sell the rights," he adds Published last summer, Fear Of Hat Loss In Las Vegas: Crisis, Chaos And Stand-up Comedy In The Nevada Desert to give it its full title, has all the ingredients for a cracking bad taste buddy movie. When best mate and fellow comedian Barry Castagnola is dumped by his fianc, Brendon, Barry, Barry's dad Keith, and comedian/actor/ movie-maker Paul Provenza plan the ultimate road trip. Cue vast quantities of booze and illegal substances, along with gun-toting lunatics, bar brawls, swearing, gambling, women and UFOs, as the deranged quartet try to find happiness and redemption in the US of A. "It's all about living your life as a movie, kind of like Hunter S Thompson in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. "We all have these weighty ideas when we start these things, but it's really just about getting messed up," says Brendon of the >> Brendon Burns tome, which Provenza is now enthusiastically "handing out to his movie producer mates to try and get turned into a film". There's no concrete deals yet, but Brendon's already thinking about casting.
"Who would I like to play me?" he ponders. "That's a real question; it may be something I have to think about if it did get made into a film.See the full content of this document
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I would hope it would be me, but it's never going to happen." Though his star is in the ascendency in the US - with well-received TV appearance...
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