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The Subject Was Orchids

By Joshua Rothkopf

Let a great adenoidal whine spread out across the land: A new comic hero for the neurotic has arrived, and his name is Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman is, in fact, a real person, a Hollywood screenwriter of no small renown. His first produced script, Being John Malkovich, inspired equal parts awe and concern; there was the obvious kinship with dementia, with monkeys… return to article

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