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Fat Albert Comes to Big Screen By Acheron, (DT) February 27, 2001 8:48 AM PT

(AP) LOS ANGELES (February 27, 2001 10:09 a.m. EST) - Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" cartoon character is coming to the big screen in a live-action film. Cosby and his wife will be executive producers for the film planned by 20th Century Fox. No start date has been set for the feature, which is being produced by Davis Entertainment Co. "For the millions of 'Fat Albert' fans, trust me, he could not be in better hands," said Cosby, who is writing the screenplay with Charles Kipps. "Fat Albert" and his friends will be based on Cosby's standup routines about a group of urban youths in Philadelphia. The characters also were featured as a long-running Saturday morning cartoon on television. Besides the "Fat Albert" project, Cosby will be executive producer for a Fox film about the love story between labor and civil-rights leader A. Philip Randolph and his wife, Lucille.