{"id":834,"date":"2004-05-13T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T17:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:29:04","slug":"commonplace-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Mamet&#8217;s Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An anecdote about David Mamet, written by the great John Lahr.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mamet once handed [Fred] Zollo a copy of &#8220;American Buffalo&#8221; to do as a movie.  &#8220;Have you adapted it for the screen?&#8221; Zollo asked.  &#8220;Adapted it?&#8221; said Mamet.  &#8220;Have I fucking what?  I&#8217;m going to adapt it right now for you.&#8221;  Mamet demanded the script back.  He crosses out &#8216;A Play by David Mamet&#8217; and he writes &#8216;A Screenplay by David Mamet&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1585670626&#038;asins=1585670626&#038;linkId=OD3G6SDKSLK4BO57&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anecdote about David Mamet, written by the great John Lahr. Mamet once handed [Fred] Zollo a copy of &#8220;American Buffalo&#8221; to do as a movie. &#8220;Have you adapted it for the screen?&#8221; Zollo asked. &#8220;Adapted it?&#8221; said Mamet. &#8220;Have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,9],"tags":[1580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111735,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/111735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}