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Article: `The Anniversary Party's' Alan Cumming sees reality as relative.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- June 20, 2001
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"Write what you know" is an age-old adage in the storytelling game. It's advice followed by a couple of brand-name actors _ Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh _ when they wrote a screenplay that they then turned into a movie that they both directed and starred in.
"The Anniversary Party" is what happens when celebrities write what they know _ famous people gathering in a stunning house amid fabulous furnishings as the movie details a night of catered debauchery and inebriated confessions.
"We wanted to make a film that was real, because most films aren't real," says Alan Cumming. "Both Jennifer and I have been frustrated at how badly real-life ...