Game Over for Art?

[Fiona Shnapple]

Welcome to Pynchon's Roast!

Is everyone in this town an actor casting themselves, writing their
scripts, filming their screen test doubles?

Bottom & Ass!

The Dane and the Dunce!

How tragic, Oh Shakespeare, the clowns have written you out of the play!


In the 1960s, The Friars' Club, The Lambs Club, and The Players Club
were often confused. Columnist Earl Wilson put it this way in 1964:
"Long ago a New Yorker asked the difference between the Lambs, Friars,
and Players, since the membership was, at the time, predominantly from
Broadway." It was left to "a wit believed to have been George S.
Kaufman" to draw the distinction: "The Players are gentlemen trying to
be actors, the Lambs are actors trying to be gentlemen, and the Friars
are neither trying to be both."



http://itzizori.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/matthew-causey-the-screen-test-of-the-double.pdf



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