The trailer for the eagerly awaited film adapation of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
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In his recent TEV guest review of Home Land, Jim Ruland called Sam Lipsyte the "funniest writer of his generation," and we're quite inclined to agree. We tore through Home Land in two joyful sittings and can't remember the last time we've laughed so hard. Lipsyte's constellation of oddly sympathetic losers is rendered with a sparkling, inspired prose style that's sent us off in search of all his prior work. In Lewis Miner's (a.k.a Teabag) woeful epistolary dispatches to his high school alumni newsletter ("I did not pan out."), we find an anti-hero for the age. Highly, highly recommended.
I will see anything with Peter Saarsgard in it. He rules.
Posted by: LiteraryMinded | March 18, 2009 at 02:01 AM
But have you read the Michael Chabon novel, MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH? The character Peter Sarsgaard plays is only 25 in the book (10 years younger than Sarsgaard was when he shot the film)... He's also NOT bisexual.
Writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber has taken more liberties with adapting this story for the screen than one can count (actually, I HAVE counted, and the % of content from the book that's made it into his screenplay is only 15).
Do yourself a favor: rent SHATTERED GLASS if you want to see Sarsgaard in action. This one doesn't deserve your $10.
Posted by: Frank Anthony Polito | March 18, 2009 at 07:40 AM