True/Slant Exclusive: David Mamet’s ‘Anne Frank’ script LEAKED
Variety reported earlier this week that Disney has hired David Mamet to adapt “The Diary of Anne Frank.” A buddy in Hollywood just faxed pages from the first draft …
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[...] many of us on the internet found this to be quite a strange match-up, but David Rees at True/Slant decided to take some initiative and enter the mind of Mamet to write up a couple of pages. Check [...]
[...] will be helming the new Anne Frank movie has baffled and intrigued cinephiles across the land. Now, True/Slant presents us with the first, leaked pages of the odd coupling! [...]
Well done!! I dashed off a shorter piece yesterday morning:
http://www.saltinwound.com/2009/08/dashed-off-comedy-in-response-to-actual.html
Brilliant.
Oy. That’s offensive.
True story. A performance of Mamet’s “The Old Neighborhood” about his childhood in a Jewish, North side neighborhood. It was a Sunday matinee, in Skokie, IL.
Main character: Well, I didn’t marry a Jew.
Older Woman in Audience: You should be ASHAMED of yourself!
I’ve never seen anyone break character like that.
kinda funny that disney would accept lines like: fuckin’ nazis
fuckin’ moldy potatoes.
this script is on crack.
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[...] in Uncategorized Here’s the, um, leaked script for the Anne Frank movie. I think my favourite part is this exchange [...]
Can’t wait for the accompanying stage show in the Magic Kingdom, Disney. Or the animatronic Nazis in a high-budget reimagining of “It’s a Small World.” Either or.
Bwahahah, I’d see a double feature of that and Jerry Lewis’ _The Day The Clown Cried_..