Not Chayefsky but...
Reg
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One of the best films in that vein that has come out recently is Thank You for Smoking, if you have not seen this put it at the top of your list. Very funny, biting satire with some great acting. Aaron Eckhart is fantastic. For some reason, and maybe it's that nobody is writing them, there just are not a lot of films that seem to get made like this. Basically the film is all about bullshit and the people that produce it and deliver it and how much of it there is out there right now...Eckhart gets to deliver some great monologues...based on the book by Christopher Buckley (I think Rogertick is a Buckley fan)
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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One of the best films in that vein that has come out recently is Thank You for Smoking, if you have not seen this put it at the top of your list. Very funny, biting satire with some great acting. Aaron Eckhart is fantastic. For some reason, and maybe it's that nobody is writing them, there just are not a lot of films that seem to get made like this. Basically the film is all about bullshit and the people that produce it and deliver it and how much of it there is out there right now...Eckhart gets to deliver some great monologues...based on the book by Christopher Buckley (I think Rogertick is a Buckley fan)
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
