They say patience is a virtue and so I must be the most virtuous piece of shit in the world, given how patient I have been waiting for Corey Stoll to take off. But the next couple of years and thereabouts finally looks to be our long-awaited reward -- we already told you that
he's going to co-star in Steven Soderbergh's film
The Reportas well as in the
Sopranos prequel opposite Alessandro Nivola
and well as in Ryan Murphy's Nurse Ratched miniseries for Netflix.
Well today there's even more -- he's going to play "Lieutenant Schrank, the New York City detective charged with quelling civic unrest in his racially-torn precinct" in Steven Spielberg's
West Side Story remake! This role was played by Simon Oakland in the original -- I've only seen the original
WSS once and I wasn't nuts about it. I know, I know, send your hate mail to me care of my butt. But I'm perfectly open and willing to watch a Steven Spielberg musical -- written by Tony Kushner for god's sake! -- and Corey Stoll singing at me is making it even easier a pill.
..Also joining the cast today is Brian dʼArcy James as another cop, "Sergeant Krupke, a veteran cop whose beat includes the territories of two warring street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets." Don't ask me to remember anything about the cops in the original, but the name "Sergeant Krupke" has infiltrated pop culture enough that it sounds familiar to me. Which is the bigger part?
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