4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2006
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
0:04.0 | Welcome to the Treatment. |
0:15.0 | My guest, William H. Macy, has one of the most impressive resumes in acting. |
0:20.0 | His career goes from Aaron Sorkin, the Korn Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson. |
0:24.4 | If you're watching TV these days, he's on TNT, Stephen King's Nightmare and Dreamscapes, |
0:28.5 | and, of course, recently thank you for smoking. |
0:31.0 | He's, of course, best known for his collaborations with David Mamet, |
0:33.4 | and the latest is an adaptation of Edmund, not directed by Mamet, but written by Mamet, directed by Stuart Gordon. Bill, thanks so much for being here. |
0:40.0 | Thank you, Elvis. I'm glad to be here. |
0:42.1 | Tell us a little bit about Edmund first, if you would. |
0:45.6 | It was a play. Dave wrote the play back in the mid-80s. |
0:51.2 | The first time I saw it was at the Provincetown Playhouse there in New York City. |
0:55.2 | And it was as astounding then as it is now. It deals with this guy, the title character, Edmund. |
1:04.8 | He leaves his wife in the first scene. He goes out into the bowels of New York or whatever big city it is, trying to hire a woman for about four scenes. |
1:15.5 | He finally ends up getting mugged. |
1:18.6 | He gets the best of the mugger. |
1:20.9 | He feels great for the first time in his life because he's beaten this guy half to death. |
1:25.9 | And he picks up the waitress, takes her home after they make love. |
1:29.1 | He kills her. |
1:29.6 | He goes to prison. |
1:31.0 | He's attacked and lives happily ever after. |
1:33.5 | It's the same old story. |
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