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Article: "I'm not dumb. You have to have a connection."; Jenny Lumet, How Did You Get Your Screenplay Read?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 12, 2008
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After 13 years of pecking away at screenplays, Manhattanite
Jenny Lumet is finally seeing one of her scripts come to life on the
big screen. "Rachel Getting Married," a drama that documents the
havoc wreaked at a wedding by the bride's sister, a recovering
addict (Anne Hathaway), has already earned critical acclaim after
opening in New York and Los Angeles. (It arrives Friday in
Washington.)
It's somewhat strange to think of Lumet, 41, as an industry
newcomer, since she has spent her life in the presence of cinematic
greatness: Her father is the revered director Sidney Lumet, of "12
Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network" fame. He's also a guy
who, as his daughter explains, has ...