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re: SOM: Thank you Ernest Lehman!

Posted by:	carolinaguy 10:48 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to:	SOM: Thank you Ernest Lehman! - LovestheShow 09:39 am EST 12/06/13

Amen. I've never seen a stage production of SOM; I only knew that there were some song and plot differences from the beloved film. But mostly what I kept thinking last night was, "Damn, this is a clunky and stilted book." If Carrie seemed stilted and wooden much of the time in the dialogue scenes, at least some of the fault has to be given to the writing. Jeez, Meryl Streep would have had a time pulling off some of those eye-rollers. If it weren't for the glorious score, this never would have made it to the stage, let alone the screen. Lehman was truly a great screenwriting craftsman--he was robbed of the Oscar for writing "North by Northwest"!

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re: SOM: Thank you Ernest Lehman!

Posted by:	WaymanWong 11:40 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to:	re: SOM: Thank you Ernest Lehman! - carolinaguy 10:48 am EST 12/06/13

Lehman WAS robbed, losing to ''Pillow Talk.'' But he was in good company: Other ''losers'' in that Original Screenplay category were Francois Truffaut for ''The 400 Blows'' and Ingmar Bergman for ''Wild Strawberries.'' Happily, the 6-time Academy Award nominee finally got a Honorary Oscar in 2001 - the first one ever given to a screenwriter - and it was presented to him by Julie Andrews.

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