Director pins jazz tale gig
Matthau to helm 'Mikey & Dolores'
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The lead role will be played by David Proval, who wrote the script with his wife, Cheryl Meccariello. Michael Meltzer is producing.
The film will include a lot of music, most of it in the form of jazz standards sung by the songstress.
Proval, a character actor who has appeared in such movies as "Mean Streets" and the upcoming "Balls of Fury," is best remembered for his "Sopranos" turn as gangster Richie Aprile. The young singer is still being cast.
Matthau said he was in talks with Eric Roberts, Steven Bauer, Proval's "Sopranos" cohort Vincent Pastore and actress Tanna Frederick. Don Rickles and baseball hit king Pete Rose will play small roles as a standup comic and Vegas celeb, respectively.
Pic will be financed by exec producer Gary Arnold through his First Take Prods. banner.
Matthau had been prepping an adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel "Freaky Deaky" when Proval called.
Pic begins shooting in May in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
