TORONTO -- If you think you see Jeremy Irons around town, you're right. It is the Oscar-winner, not a dead ringer. Irons begins work here Monday on a project for U.S. cable network Showtime, playing jazz- age author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the twilight of his life.

The movie, which is still considering a couple of titles, is based on Frances Kroll Ring's memoir Against The Current. Ring was the young, aspiring writer who served as Fitzgerald's secretary near the end of his life, nursing him through delusions and alcoholism and giving him the spiritual solace to work on his final, but ultimately unfinished, novel, The Last Tycoon.

Neve Campbell is coming home to play Frances.

The film was written by and will be directed by Henry Bromell, a former executive producer of TV's Homicide: Life on The Street and Northern Exposure.


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