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(”Uh, I’m here for the gangbang?”)
Despite the fact that this sounds like a pitch for an SNL sketch (in the vein of Patton Oswalt’s “Midnight in the Olive Garden of Good and Evil”) David Mamet really is writing a screen version of The Diary of Anne Frank.
The film will be an amalgamation of the famed diary; the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; and Mamet’s own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl’s rite of passage. Frank, who died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, became an icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of the diary that she kept during the two years that her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam. [Variety]
Yes! That’s what The Diary of Anne Frank was always missing: witty, fast-paced dialog!
Say Anne, whaddya think about keepin a diary?
Keepin’ a diary?
That’s right, a diary. A book where ya put ya thoughts, ya dreams… ya philosophizin’.
I know what a diary is, ya wiseguy. Why should I keep a diary? Why I ain’t nothin but a little Jewish girl, hidin’ out, tryin’ ta keep away from da Nazis. Ooh I hate dem big, ugly goodfanuttin Nazis!
Sure, but like I said, it’s a place where you put your hopes, ya dreams.
I just tole ya, my dream’s ta keep away from da Nazis, what I need a book for?
…Okay, I admit, my David Mamet parody might’ve gotten infected with The Three Stooges. It happens. Still, I’m excited for this. Almost as excited as I am for Joss Whedon’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Aaron Sorkin’s Les Miserables, Sam Mendes’ Transformers 3. Or the George Romero remake of State & Main, State & Main & Zombies. (it’s a metaphor).
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve started a new FilmDrunk segment. It’s called Forgotten Classics, and in it, I call your attention to older, awesomer movies you may have missed. I figure it’s a great way to keep from killing myself because I have to report another movie based on a kids’ toy, or Bridget Jones Diary 3. Oh yeah, they’re making that, hadn’t you heard? Who cares.
Anyway, today’s Forgotten Classic is 1977’s Deathbed: The Bed That Eats. (It may not technically be “forgotten,” because Patton Oswalt mentions it in a famous bit which I’ve included below). Things to look for in the Deathbed clip:
Boy, they just don’t make ‘em like this anymore. Thank God.
Big Fan stars my favorite comedian Patton Oswalt, in the directorial debut of Rob Siegel, who wrote my favorite movie of last year The Wrestler. I’ve already rubbed my nerd sweat and anticipation boner all over this flick, so I’ll try not to repeat myself, but now it has a trailer. I hope this doesn’t give too much away, but as you can see, the Taxi-Driver-meets-football-fanaticism plot involves Patton’s character getting beat up by his favorite player and suddenly having the power to decide his fate.
It also has a cameo from Michael Rapaport, and as you can hear at the 38-second mark, Sirius radio sports guy Scott Ferrall playing himself. I don’t know how people can listen to that guy without getting nauseous. Every time I hear him I wonder who decided to give a guy who sounds like an 85-year-old hooker with a trach tube a talk radio gig. It’d be like putting a progeria baby with a lazy eye on TV. Dang, I just inadvertently described Stu Scott and John Clayton, didn’t I. I guess what I’m saying is that ugly people know a lot about sports.
[opens Aug 24th]
Judd Apatow’s next movie, Funny People, is kind of about comedians, and while he was filming it, he held a concert called A Night of Funny People, featuring people like Patton Oswalt and Sarah Silverman (probably my two favorite comics, along with Zach Galif.), and reportedly used some film from the concert in the movie. Today’s news is that some clips of Aziz Ansari’s performance, where he did a character named Randy, have hit the web. And they’ve even started a Randy website (laughyourdickoff.com) as part of their viral marketing.
[Update: the clip I was originally talking about was this one, but the video kept autoplaying so I took it down]
I know I’m a grouch and a hater about a lot of things, but I’d like to think I’m pretty open when it comes to comedy. But a lot of people whose opinion I usually respect find this Randy character utterly hilarious, and I… I just don’t see it. It’s not unfunny, it just doesn’t do anything for me, kind of like the comedic equivalent of the Foo Fighters (go ahead and yell at me for that one too). Plus he keeps breaking character. Is that what’s funny about Randy? That he’s a character who constantly breaks character? Nonetheless, I’m posting some clips in case you guys enjoy it. In the meantime I’ll just continue to stand here, frowning at my lawn and wondering why you never call.
[via CHUD]
