Film & TV NewsCarol Burnett’s Carrie and Me, About Her Relationship With Late Daughter Carrie Hamilton, Heading to the ScreenIan and Eshom Nelms will pen the screenplay, with Tina Fey among the producers.
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Andrew Gans
March 26, 2019
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Carol Burnett’s 2013 best-selling memoir, Carrie and Me, will be adapted for the screen, according to Deadline.
Brothers Ian and Eshom Nelms (Small Town Crime) will pen the screenplay; Burnett is producing the Focus Features title via her Mabel Cat Productions company along with Little Stranger’s Tina Fey and Eric Gurian, as well as Steven Rogers.
In the book, entertainment icon Burnett discusses her daughter’s battle with drug addiction, as well as Hamilton’s successes as an actor, including playing Maureen in the first national tour of Rent. She was also a veteran of the TV series Fame, guest-starred on TV (Walker, Texas Ranger and more), and acted in films (Tokyo Pop, Cool World, Checkered Flag, Shag). She passed away in 2002 at the age of 38 from cancer.
The film will follow Burnett’s life told through her relationship with her late daughter.
The mother-and-daughter pair co-wrote the play Hollywood Arms, based on Burnett's early life, which debuted on Broadway in 2002 under the direction of Harold Prince.
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Sydney Lucas, Tyne Daly, Michele Pawk Joined Carol Burnett For a Special Evening of Hollywood Arms, and We Have the Pics
Sydney Lucas, Tyne Daly, Michele Pawk Joined Carol Burnett For a Special Evening of Hollywood Arms, and We Have the Pics
Hollywood Arms, the autobiographical 2002 play by actress Carol Burnett and her late daughter Carrie Hamilton, received a special concert reading at Merkin Concert Hall Sept. 21. Take a glimpse inside the room packed with some truly talented people.
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Emily Skeggs, William Jackson Harper, Cotter Smith, Michele Pawk, Tyne Daly, Sydney Lucas, Caleb McLaughlin, Anthony Edwards, Jenny Jules and Will Pullen
Phillip Himberg, Carol Burnett and Christopher Hibma
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Michele Pawk, Lydia Kontos, Carol Burnett and Tyne Daly
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Mark Brokaw, Will Pullen, Anthony Edwards, Michele Pawk, Caleb McLaughlin, Tyne Daly, Izzy Hanson-Johnston, Sydney Lucas, Carol Burnett, Emily Skeggs, Jenny Jules, William Jackson Harper and Phillip Himberg
