Patrick Haggerty has a story that's better than yours — even Hollywood thinks so
by By Allison Stewart, Chicago Tribune
Sep 26, 2017
4 minutes
Three years ago, no one had heard of Lavender Country frontman Patrick Haggerty. Now, he's contemplating who might play him in the movie of his life, currently in the early stages of development in Hollywood.
It's the role of somebody's lifetime, the story of a dairy farmer's kid in the 1950s who became the leader of the first and only (at least as far as anybody knows) gay country band, then a radical community organizer, and, now, a newly discovered, late-in-life Americana sensation.
Joaquin Phoenix? Too old. To resemble young Haggerty, the actor must be pale and delicate and thin; perhaps somebody British. "Some
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