Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers

Heavy on the hyphens and parenthetical asides. A great primer on the creative genius behind some of my very favorite films - The Royal Tenenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, I Heart Huckabees, and many more. I am disappointed, though, that more energy wasn't put towards some theorizing of Charlie Kaufman's work. The title is a bit misleading - really, [a:Derek Hill 668432 Derek Hill http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1221617401p2/668432.jpg] adores Kaufman and sees him as the figurehead for this “New American New Wave” movement he addresses, and I would think that he deserves more than a section of the introduction to film movements and supporting descriptions of his work on others' films.First full book I read for the Literacy 24/7 fundraiser 2010.