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You worked on the Deerhunter? . . . .

. . . . now I've got a question for you, Elliot, but I have to digress with a prelude: some 25 years ago I was hangin' at Barney's Beanery with my cousin Eric, our pal Marius, and Marius's roommate, who's name is long forgotten.  We were having brews and chili when out of the blue the roommate yells out, "Hey Seymour!"  In the back of the joint a guy playing pool turns around and our nameless drinking buddy tells Seymour Cassells that his mom had worked with him on a movie.  Seymour comes over to our table and we have a conversation about Hollywood and his career.  I asked him if there was a part that he really wanted that he didn't get, and his reply was that he was going to be Christopher Walken's Russian roulette handler in the Deerhunter, but for some reason another actor got the part.  I've always wondered about that because the character in the film was clearly French, and it's hard to imagine Seymour performing with a French accent.  Can you shed any light on this dim story from the distant past?  Curiously, Art