Abby Mann, Oscar Winning Writer Dies

[nmartin]

Abby Mann, Oscar Winning Writer Dies#1

Posted: 3/28/08 at 9:12am

Abby Mann won an Oscar for Judgment at Nuremberg, which featured the recently deceased Richard Widmark.
Mann Obit.

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re: Abby Mann, Oscar Winning Writer Dies#2

Posted: 3/29/08 at 10:24am

After receiving the Oscar in 1962 he said: "I believe that a writer worth his salt at all has an obligation not only to entertain but to comment on the world in which he lives, not only to comment, but maybe have a shot at reshaping the world."

I love that quote, and I think it's exactly what's wrong with so many screenplays and plays these days. So many writers are satisfied with merely commenting. They're afraid to make a statement, to actually think. To try to make sense out if it, and perhaps change it. They just comment, which to me is so very ordinary.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Mr Roxy]

re: Abby Mann, Oscar Winning Writer Dies#2

Posted: 3/29/08 at 10:38am

I remember seeing the movie @ The Palace in NY when it was showing films.

I actually have the souvenir book from the film. So many great performances in it, it is hard to pick just one.

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[nmartin]

re: Abby Mann, Oscar Winning Writer Dies#3

Posted: 3/29/08 at 10:50am

Mr. Roxy, I would love to see that souvenir book.
In particular I love Dietrich in that film.

"I'm a daughter of the military...Control hunger. Control thirst. It has served me well."

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re: Abby Mann, Oscar Winning Writer Dies#4

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:58pm

I remember when "Zodiac" came out last year, I kept thinking that Abby Mann could write CIRCLES around this story, and DID "back in the day."

I even posted that Zodiac was a "poor man's" Abby Mann screenplay.

...and now the master of that particular style is gone...

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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