Thoughts on books, reading and publishing from the staff and friends of the Tattered Cover Book Store.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
TC Tidbits: Author David Mitchell On Getting It Right
"Being the owner of a speech defect, I watch the portrayal of stammerers in the arts with a hypercritical eye. No film (to my knowledge) comes close to the intelligence with which the award-winning The King’s Speech handles the subject of stammering. Scriptwriter David Seidler and actor Colin Firth’s portrait of George VI’s struggles is perceptive, unsentimental and refreshingly accurate."
Read the whole Prospect Magazine article.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment