Betrayal

Harold Pinter died on Christmas Eve.

No great irony or significance there - the man was a secular Jew - but, considering he was also a nobel laureate, legion d'honneur recipient, Tony award winner and Oscar nominee, his passing is definitely newsworthy. In fact, since the guy was 82 and battling cancer, you'd expect a major news network like NBC to have a slickly produced obit on file. But Nooooooooh. It appears they got some intern to google the guy.

So what did they list as his most important credits? A few of his 29 plays,such as The Birthday Party, Betrayal, and The Homecoming?

Nope. His screenplay adaptation of John Fowles' novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman. Probably the only Pinter piece the intern had ever heard of.

NBC wants us to remember one of the twentieth century's most important playwrights for his screenplay adaptation of someone else's work.