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Moore: PHAMALy actor Roucis tapped for Ed Zwick film

By John Moore, Denver Post Theater Critic
Posted: 12/06/2009 01:00:00 AM MST
Updated: 12/06/2009 07:51:54 PM MST
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Roucis, who has lived with advanced Parkinson's for 22 years, plays, yes, a stand-up comedian with Parkinson's in Ed Zwick's upcoming film, "Love and Other Things," starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

Roucis won the role through an unusual audition process in which candidates were told to send in improvised videotapes over the Internet. Roucis rallied pals Mark Dissette and Steve Wilson from the local handicapped theater company PHAMALy, and they videotaped Roucis doing a routine she's performed dozens of times around the country, once in a private audience with Janet Reno.

In the film, Hathaway plays a woman with young-onset Parkinson's, and Gyllenhaal takes her to a convention where Roucis' routine allows her to laugh for the first time about her new condition