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Anne And Mamet?
August 14, 2009
It sounds a bit like something out of the Theatre of the Absurd. David Mamet, the brutal, often vulgar, machismo-hailing, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and director (“Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Speed-the-Plow,” “Wag The Dog”) will be making a screen adaptation of “The Diary Of Anne Frank, to be released by Disney (yes, for real).
The film will reportedly draw on Anne Frank’s original diaries, the acclaimed Broadway play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, and original material by Mr. Mamet himself (Oy!).
Casting has not yet been announced, and no date has been set for the film’s production or release.
Interestingly, in the introduction to his 2006 essay collection titled “The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred and the Jews,” Mr. Mamet, 61, referenced Jews “whose favorite Jew is Anne Frank and whose second-favorite does not exist.”
This should be interesting, folks.