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| Monday, November 24, 2003 |
Life imitates art
Wayne Kramer knows from bad luck. He's experienced it all his life. "My family has a legacy of terrible luck," the Jewish screenwriter told the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. "It's like a black cloud hovers over us." More from that article: "He described how he survived the anti-Semitism at boot camp, only to be shipped off to Angola to shoot a training video. 'They didn't bother to give us malaria pills,' Kramer said. While on leave for the High Holidays two months later, he experienced severe chills and was rushed to the hospital. 'I was told that the strain I had would either kill me or that I'd completely recover, with no recurrences,' he said. Of course, he got it twice." Oh, and the life imitating art part? Kramer's new movie, Sundance favorite The Cooler starring William H. Macy, is about a guy so unlucky that a Vegas casino hires him to sit next to people so they'll lose.
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