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kurt vonnegut in a letter to harry brague

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Quiz Show premiered in New York City on 14 September 1994, before wider release in October.

Based on Richard Goodwin's 1988 nonfiction account in Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties, Paul Attanasio began working on a script in 1990, which researched with articles about the quiz show scandal and talking with Goodwin (Robert Redford had known Goodwin since working on 1972's The Candidate). Redford also relied upon Dan Wakefield, who wrote New York in the Fifties, and hired him as an advisor to the film (Wakefield has an on-screen cameo). Disney offered Charles Van Doren $100,000 to be a consultant on the film, but he declined.

Despite earning $20 million over its budget, the studio considered the film to be a "disappointment." It was also nominated for 4 Academy Awards - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Paul Scofield), and Best Adapted Screenplay - but did not receive an Oscar.

Quiz Show appeared on more than 40 "best of" lists at the end of the year, including the National Board of Review (#2), Rolling Stone (#2), Los Angeles Times (#3), New York Times (#3), Washington Post (#3), Chicago Tribune (#5), and was named Best Film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle.

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[Seymour Krim] brought a woman psychiatrist friend to the San Remo, one of his favorite Village bars, and she told him with a straight face that it reminded her of “the admissions ward at Bellevue,” where she had been an intern.

     —Dan Wakefield, New York in the ‘50s

Top photo: The San Remo ca. 1954. Weegee via the Steven Kasher Gallery

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Making a New Kind of Scene: New York's The Five Spot

David Brent Johnson has created a wonderful episode and essay on The Five Spot in its original Bowery location and its later St. Marks Place address. It was an amazing place that fed the contemporary arts & culture scene of New York at the time, and gave impetus to the careers of Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus among others.

-Michael Cuscuna

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Writers Dan Wakefield, Kurt Vonnegut, and Bruce Jay Friedman have a discussion about the unique experience of having their work adapted to fit on the big screen. (1997)

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Do you […] move in a kind of waking coma through the rituals of the day? […] Most of us dismiss as boring the nitty-gritty of waking, eating, washing the dishes, carrying on relationships with loved ones, paying the bills, answering the phone, solving problems, mowing the grass, tending the garden, feeding the cat, walking the dog, going to bed and to sleep again, waking anew each morning.

Seeing these ordinary activities as part of our creative lives, related to everything else we do, and seeing all we do as creation infuses us with power. If we realize that we create our very reality, then we have a new relationship to it, and we can take more control of our lives. We can alter them and refine them as we would a work of art, like adding more color to a painting, or adding more characters to a story, or changing the end, or perhaps the setting, singing a song in a new key, doing a dance with a different rhythm.

—Dan Wakefield

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Through the Woods Soundtrack

#ThroughTheWoods Soundtrack by Dan Wakefield #videogame #gamesoundtrack #game #soundtrack

Original Game Soundtrack (OST) from the video game Through the Woods (2016). Music composed by Dan Wakefield. Source: Through the Woods Video Game Style: Original Soundtrack Music by Dan Wakefield Label: Wakefield Records Format: Digital Release Date: January 24, 2018 Through the Woods is a 2016 third-person horror adventure video game developed by Antagonist studio, published by 1C Publishing EU…

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