David Mamet to pen film about Holocaust victim Anne Frank.Byline: ANI London, Aug 14 (ANI): Playwright David Mamet Noun 1. David Mamet - United States playwright (born in 1947) Mamet plans to write a script for a film on Holocaust victim Anne Frank, it has emerged. Walt Disney announced that his screenplay would pick up information from Frank's diary and a Pulitzer-winning 1950s play by husband and wife team Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. The diary of the Jew woman reports the horrors of belonging to her religion in Nazi-occupied Holland. The current year marks the 65th anniversary of the death of the 15-year-old girl at a labour camp, after she was pulled out of her hiding place in Amsterdam, the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News reports. Mamet landed with the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his play Glengarry Glen Ross, which was later adapted into a film starring Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino. He is also the scriptwriter script·writ·er n. One who writes copy to be used by an announcer, performer, or director in a film or broadcast. script of hit films like The Untouchables untouchables: see Harijans. Untouchables lowest caste in India; social outcasts. [Ind. Culture: Brewer Dictionary, 1118] See : Banishment , Hannibal and Wag The Dog. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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