Art Imitating Rap

It is so wrong that the film Eight Mile came out so many years before a movie about Biggie Smalls. Will a Hollywood treatment ruin the lovingly-tended media image of my all-time favorite party-jammer? Find out in January 2009. Interestingly, the actor who plays the big man, Jamal Woolard, looks as much like Biggie as the guy who played Ian Curtis in Closer looked like the deceased member of Joy Division. Playing dead famous people has to be a little creepy when you look exactly like them.