The Fablemans by Tony Kushner

It's been described as Spielberg's most personal film it is autobiographically inspired. I interviewed Tony Kushner some time ago and he said that what happened was he'd been talking to Spielberg about this for a long time. So if you've heard Spielberg talking about his childhood which he has talked about it quite a lotYou'll know for example that he had a primal event in his life which he was taken to see the greatest show on earth the Cecil B. DeMille film circus theme but it features this spectacular train wreck. In the Fablemans young Sammy Fableman is taken to see the film he sits there in awe he sees the train crash It's traumatic but extraordinary,

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