hijinks, as usual
Friday, November 15th, 2002
R: Adaptation is supposed to be good.
J: What is it?
R: They got Charlie Kaufman, the Being John Malkovich guy, to do an adaptation of the Susan Orlean novel The Orchid Thief. So it stars Nic Cage as Charlie Kaufman, trying to do an adaptation of the Orchid Thief, and he has an evil twin, also played by Nic Cage, who gets all the girls. Then Susan Orlean turns up as Meryl Streep, or vice versa. Hijinks, as usual, ensue.
J: What’s the Orchid Thief again? I saw someone reading it in Atlas.
R: Just another po-faced novel.
J: Well, they weren’t so much reading it as waving it around…
