Comments on: Deathbed Pranks of the Great Directors http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/deathbed-pranks-of-the-great-directors/ david cairns Fri, 24 May 2013 09:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/deathbed-pranks-of-the-great-directors/#comment-26054 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:28:34 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=12323#comment-26054 Ah, you’re right re Wright. I seem to recall the Emo short playing in Edinburgh. Never saw it, and forgot all about it until now.

]]> By: MikeP http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/deathbed-pranks-of-the-great-directors/#comment-26053 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:10:20 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=12323#comment-26053 Also, just found out that Emo Phillips wrote and produced an indie comedy called Meet the Parents that was bought and remade with DeNiro and Stiller. Apparently everyone died at the end of his version.

I wonder if he got a credit.

]]> By: MikeP http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/deathbed-pranks-of-the-great-directors/#comment-26052 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:06:09 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=12323#comment-26052 “the one about his apartment having all its contents stolen and replaced with identical replicas.”

That was Steven Wright the other great modern absurdist; “Some people have a fear of heights, I have a fear of widths.”

Emo; “when I was growing up my parents said, ‘Don’t open the cellar door, don’t open the cellar door.’ Eventually I did and I saw wonderful things, grass, trees, the sun… “

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