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Article: The makers of Showtime's '12 Angry Men' are guilty of talent in the first degree.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- August 12, 1997
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HOLLYWOOD -- The room is so small that a dozen chairs and a big table barely fit. The windows are grimy, the air-conditioning doesn't work and the adjacent bathroom looks like it belongs in a prison. The smell of sweat lingers as 12 about-to-be-angry men file in to decide the fate of a 13th.
Just off the set on a soundstage at Raleigh Studios, director William Friedkin studies his monitor as Jack Lemmon begins dissecting a key part of the evidence: An eyewitness report that the accused screamed at the victim, "I'm going to kill you."
Lemmon twists in his chair, looks around the jury room and asks, "How many times have we used that phrase?" The other men ...