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GOP may cast actor into a starring role

Fred Dalton Thompson played Senator Thompson in the 2006 Albert Brooks film 'Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.' Fred Dalton Thompson played Senator Thompson in the 2006 Albert Brooks film "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World." (Lacey Terrell/Warner Independent Pictures)
By Peter S. Canellos
Globe Columnist / April 10, 2007

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WASHINGTON -- Fred Dalton Thompson was cast as president only once, in the short docudrama made by former senator Sam Nunn's Nuclear Threat Initiative and titled "Last Best Chance." The choice of Thompson to play the chief was made by politicians, not casting directors. (Full article: 786 words)

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