With a film and television career spanning over 25 years, Jon Lovitz has made a marvelous living by playing characters that delight in delicious sleaze or antisocial pushiness. Whether it be his SNL characters of Tommy Flanagan (Pathological Liar), Master Thespian, and Mephistopheles, or big-screen roles of Jimmie Moore in The Wedding Singer and studio lackey Morty in Three Amigos, Lovitz has become well known for his ability to play overwrought boorishness with the best of Hollywood's comic stars.
His latest film role is 2010's Casino Jack, a based-on-a-true-story tale of infamous and disgraced Jack Abramoff (played by Kevin Spacey), former super-lobbyist in the George W. Bush administration. The film follows Abramoff's meteoric rise and spectacular fall from grace, complete with jail term, after masterminding a scheme to bilk Indian tribes out of tens of millions of casino dollars, all under the guise of 'protection'. Lovitz plays Adam Kidan, a former...
His latest film role is 2010's Casino Jack, a based-on-a-true-story tale of infamous and disgraced Jack Abramoff (played by Kevin Spacey), former super-lobbyist in the George W. Bush administration. The film follows Abramoff's meteoric rise and spectacular fall from grace, complete with jail term, after masterminding a scheme to bilk Indian tribes out of tens of millions of casino dollars, all under the guise of 'protection'. Lovitz plays Adam Kidan, a former...
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