Archives for March 28, 2012

A master of American music died today.
In lieu of restating the obvious, here’s a televised version of one of my favorite Flatt and Scruggs songs, “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down”:

Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, directed by Barry Davis and originally telecast on the BBC in 1987. The cast includes Dinsdale Landen, Tessa Peake-Jones, and Prunella Scales:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

“To write a successful scene, one must stringently apply and stringently answer the following three questions:

“1. Who wants what from whom?

“2. What happens if they don’t get it?

“3. Why now?”

David Mamet, Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business