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While on the set of The Selected: Final Hour this weekend I got to overhear the following exchange. We were filming inside a huge old three-story house, the spacious attic of which inspired someone to mention something about Anne Frank. I don't remember exactly what because the instant Anne Frank's name was mentioned someone else yelled very loudly:
"SHE WAS CATHOLIC!"
*Stunned silence from the first two conversationalists, eventually broken by a tentative "What?"*
"SHE WAS CATHOLIC! ANNE FRANK WAS A CATHOLIC!"
First Conversationalist: "I really don't think that Anne Frank was Cath-"
"YEAH, SHE BECAME A CATHOLIC! THAT'S WHY SHE QUIT WRITING THE VAMPIRE NOVELS! ANNE FRANK QUIT WRITING THE VAMPIRE NOVELS BECAUSE SHE BECAME A CATHOLIC!"
Collective facepalm from the entire room.
Anne Frank was a girl who couldn't come out of an attic. Anne Rice writes about vampires who can't stop coming out of the closet. If you know nothing else about 20th century Western literature, know this.
"SHE WAS CATHOLIC!"
*Stunned silence from the first two conversationalists, eventually broken by a tentative "What?"*
"SHE WAS CATHOLIC! ANNE FRANK WAS A CATHOLIC!"
First Conversationalist: "I really don't think that Anne Frank was Cath-"
"YEAH, SHE BECAME A CATHOLIC! THAT'S WHY SHE QUIT WRITING THE VAMPIRE NOVELS! ANNE FRANK QUIT WRITING THE VAMPIRE NOVELS BECAUSE SHE BECAME A CATHOLIC!"
Collective facepalm from the entire room.
Anne Frank was a girl who couldn't come out of an attic. Anne Rice writes about vampires who can't stop coming out of the closet. If you know nothing else about 20th century Western literature, know this.
