Will Sam Shepard Play Patriarch in "August: Osage County" Film?
Sam Shepard is in talks to play the gone-missing patriarch Beverly Weston in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Variety reported.
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