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Saddam Look-Alikes Bid for British Stage Glory 
Thu May 1, 2003 09:27 AM ET 

LONDON (Reuters) - Sporting black berets, khaki
jackets and black mustaches, a group of Saddam Hussein
look-alikes bid Thursday for stage glory playing the
deposed Iraqi dictator.

Fourteen men -- some looking more like Groucho Marx
than Saddam -- attended an audition in west London for
a part in the satirical play "Follow My Leader," due
in the West End next month.

"There were one or two possibles and as with all
auditions you go away and think about it," producer
Raymond Gubbay told Reuters. "But we have other
avenues ..."

The real Saddam was well known to employ a number of
doubles to fool potential attackers.

None was known to have been in the Hammersmith area
Thursday morning but Gubbay added mysteriously, "I had
a call from Damascus this morning."

"When I asked him if he had any experience for the
part he became very cagey. Who knows? It could be the
man himself or one of his doubles. I have asked him to
send pictures," he added.

Gubbay warned that stardom for the successful
candidate would be fleeting. The part is only a cameo
in an otherwise serious look at contemporary politics.

<http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=stageNews&storyID=2666899>




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