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Jason Raize, the
22-year-old star of Disney's
Broadway hit "The Lion King,"
will take a
short break from his Simba role
this summer to make his feature
film
debut. The untitled film is
about New Jersey high school
kids who
complete in annual fashion
competitions between local
schools. John
Avildsen ("Rocky" and "The
Karate Kid") will direct the
independent
project. "I'm calling it the
untitled 'Romeo and Juliet' in
Hoboken,"
Avildsen said. "It's kids and
their dreams to be in the
fashion
industry. There are these
modeling clubs where kids who
are not
affluent get a sense of worth
and self-esteem trying to
realize their
dreams of breaking out of their
eight-block world by making
their own
clothes or modeling them." Raize
plays an aspiring Hispanic model
who
bonds with an Italian girl who
works in her father's tailor
shop and
puts together her own clothing
creations. The wannabe model has
romantic designs on the girl,
even though both families don't
approve
of the romance because of the
ethnic differences. The script
is by
Virginia Clark and Marjorie
Short.
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