August: Osage County,” starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. That flick’s awkward dinner scene — a laugh riot onstage because live theater audiences need to pierce discomfort with noise — was a letdown, too.Then I thought of Letts’ titanic Broadway turn as George in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” another small play that found a visceral, successful life on screen in 1966 thanks to director Mike Nichols.
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