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Daniel, Eric, and Jennifer Mendelsohn

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from: Eric Mendelsohn

A Night of Drinking, or an Anxiety Attack in My Underpants

Posted Monday, June 18, 2001, at 7:11 PM ET

Hey you guys,

I'm dashing out of the house, so this will have to be short.

Funny you should bring up movies as I'm off to see that new, apparently devastating Iranian film, The Uncle Is Searching for Spoons--it's by the same guy who made last year's internationally loathed Mira's Gums.

I actually had an idea today for a film that I would like to sell to Miramax. It's about three dour, repressed English women who travel to a tiny coastal town in Italy for the summer. By the end of the summer, everyone in Italy is dour and repressed, and the women leave. By the way, I realize it needs work.

After the film--who knows--the night's in diapers! I'll probably be off to have a pitcher of Manhattans with writer friends, and then I'll stop in backstage after the curtain has come down at The Producers--but most likely, I'll be having an anxiety attack alone in my apartment--probably in my underpants--we shall see!

Well, thanks for today, you guys--I know I've done a lot of learning and growing, and I will definitely never be the same person I was when the day began. You guys rock!

Love,
Eric Richard

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from: Eric Mendelsohn

A Night of Drinking, or an Anxiety Attack in My Underpants

Posted Monday, June 18, 2001, at 7:11 PM ET

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Daniel Mendelsohn, book critic for New York magazine, is the author of The Elusive Embrace. Eric Mendelsohn is the writer/director of the film Judy Berlin. Jennifer Mendelsohn is the author of Slate's "Keeping Tabs" column. To read their previous "Breakfast Table," click here.

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[Thursday notes from the Fray Editor: A true "Breakfast Table" thread got going here: starting with made-up words, moving on to dead languages, salaries, and cheerful insults, plus a chance to find out which BT regular is a public defender, and what he likes about the the job (the pens are nice, and he doesn't meant penitentiaries). Another cross thread started here (OK, Amber, you are a high-maintenance troublemaker too. It was nothing personal, but you don't confine yourself to the "Breakfast Table". ) Good discussion on death penalty starts with new star Ender here. In fact, there are good threads everywhere this week, none of them staying on topic for long, and all of them involving being rude to other posters: "the only reason you are elevated [to gold stars] is so the rest of us know who to make Ad hominem attacks against."]

Daniel,

Please restrain yourself. According to my calculations, at this rate you will have used up the world's supply of parentheses (left and right) by 2:21PM on Thursday

--Keith M. Ellis

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[Tuesday notes from the Fray Editor: By sheer chance, the Fray index at one point reads:

The Mendelsohns are back!
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We would like to stress that the second post was on a completely different subject: we don't want the Mendelsohns getting cross with us. And we're not going near the whole 'provincial hicks' area.

One highlight of the Mendelsohn's previous "Breakfast Table" was the occasional appearance of the Missing Mendelsohn Brothers, and we have an early sighting of one here. He was replying to Arthur Stock's evocatively named "Vote for your favorite Mendelsohn here" post. Neill Hamilton is the official troublemaker to the Breakfast Table Fray, and outdid himself, below.]

It's starting well: someone has called Texas elected officials retarded. Next, as a parent of teenagers I think that sibling arguments can be awful heated. I am open to suggestions as how to provoke one among the three siblings talking this week. Perhaps one of the topics they could address is which one of them was treated best by their parents. Or perhaps they could rehash embarrassing moments that one other sibling caused. Whatever, there is lots of potential here.

--Neill Hamilton

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[Now read how Neill Hamilton, with the grumpiness we love him for, changed his mind...]

We [Joseph Britt, Arthur Stock and Will V] shamelessly shilled for the Mendelsohns when we occupied the [Fray posters'] Breakfast Table. It didn't take long for Slate to invite them back.

Wonder if they'll return the favor...

--WillV

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