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Donald Faison is "Homie Spumoni"
POSTED ON 06/10/05 AT 12:00 A.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

The Hollywood Reporter reports that "Scrubs" star Donald Faison will star in "Homie Spumoni," an indie comedy co-written and directed by Mike Cerrone. Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Joey Fatone and Whoopi Goldberg are also attached to the picture.

The story centers on Renato, a black man (Faison) raised as an Italian-American goombah and unaware that he is black. When his birth parents show up, he spurns his Italian family as well as his Jewish American Princess girlfriend and goes to his birth family's home. There, he realizes he must learn to be comfortable in his own skin.

Cerrone ("Me, Myself & Irene") wrote the script with Glenn Ciano and Steve Cerrone.