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Killing Charlie Kaufman

And now here's a cool little odd exclusive. Easily the niftiest and most surprising things about running this site are the variety of folks who contact me and the neato stuff they provide, be it info or multimedia or whatever. First, some background.

Once upon a time, a guy named Charlie Kaufman slaved in TV, writing sitcoms. He did this for several years. Then he wrote a film script called Being John Malkovich and a few years later it was filmed and became a surprise hit and everyone went "Wow" and "Gee" and he won accolades ahoy and it was bye-bye TV. Fast-forward three years and a humble Aussie built a website about Charlie, because the Aussie had not much better to do.

One of Charlie's colleagues in TV was a writer named Rick Cunningham. Last year Rick wrote a somewhat autobiographical script called Killing Charlie Kaufman. Ahem. The script was recently forwarded to me by Armin, an amigo of Rick's, and I enjoyed it very much. It's pretty damn funny. Long story short, I've been given permission to post this cool little piece of Kaufmanalia.

So without further ado - and let's face it, I just went through a whole lot of pointless ado - Killing Charlie Kaufman. (PDF, 190KB.)

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