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DO NOT PANIC
Even bigger news than the previous biggest news ever:
Playwright Harold Pinter revealed yesterday that he has given up writing altogether.
Wait… Harold Pinter is still alive?
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2006 08 27 at 12:32 AM • permalinkGood. His plays are dreck. Now if he’d only give up speaking, as well…
Posted by Polish Frizzle on 2006 08 27 at 12:37 AM • permalink“I recently had a holiday in Dorset and took a couple of my usual yellow writing pads. I didn’t write a damn word. Fondly, I turned them over and put them in a drawer.”
There is a God! Now, if only we could convince Phatty Adams, Mike Cretin and a few of the others to fondly hang up their keyboads. Pinter’s last decent screenplay goes back to the early 60’s, The Servant.
Damn. Just damn. That means it’ll be the talk of the smoko room tomorrow and no-one will be discussing footy and hot chicks.
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 27 at 01:44 AM • permalinkHarold Pinter ceasing to right is exactly equal to me ceasing to slaughter pigs in my back yard. Both pig and public are happier for the occasion.
Posted by Holden McGroyn on 2006 08 27 at 02:18 AM • permalinkSuicide bombings are “logical and inevitable until we take a different view of our political responsibility.”
Perhaps our political responsibility is massive and totally debilitating attacks on the regimes of states known to sponsor this sort of jihadist mentality? Like Chirac said, but would not do.Great post Crusader (#10)! You have put everything into context just nicely.
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2006 08 27 at 03:56 AM • permalinkKitchen sink drama generally appeals only to miserable bastards anyway. You don’t go to a Pinter play to be entertained, amused, distracted or enlightened. You go to a Pinter play so you can smugly see how the other half lives, and still come out feeling dead miserable.
Now Pinter has stopped writing the next step is for him to pull his head in and shut up.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 08 27 at 07:13 AM • permalinkI fear this may be be just an extended…................................................................................................pause.
Posted by David Morgan on 2006 08 27 at 08:20 AM • permalinkIsn’t “Playwright Harold Pinter revealed yesterday that he has given up writing altogether,” a line from Airplane or Airplane 2?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 27 at 01:12 PM • permalinkHarry Buttle—he had to write plays. Can’t structure a paragraph worth a damn.
So an Angry Young Man Becomes a Bitter Old Man… what are the odds?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 27 at 06:17 PM • permalinkThere was one original Pinter work I liked quite a lot: Betrayal. It was very well done and the devise of telling the story from the end was most effective. It’s said to be auto-biographical and I’ve always wondered if Pinter was Jeremy Irons or Ben Kingsley (Kingsley’s my guess). And I thought his screenplay for French Lieutenant’s Woman was brillant. I loved the play-within-a-play aspect he brought to it which allowed him to effectively handle Fowles’ silly, cop-out ending(s). And, yes, the screenplay for The Servant was quite good also. Strange and disturbing and utterly fascinating (loved Dirk Bogarde).
But, as far as I’m concerned, Harold should have put that yellow pad away some time in 1984. And sown his lips together at the same time. Feh.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 27 at 07:06 PM • permalinkNow, if we can only get him to give up breathing.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 08 27 at 07:27 PM • permalinkFor anyone worried, DON’T PANIC.
a favourite Pinter poem.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon
See if I don’t.
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