Trivia / The Diary of a Young Girl

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  • In a 1991 interview, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe stated that the band's song "Harborcoat" was based on Diary of a Young Girl.
  • In the Law & Order episode "Night and Fog", Ben Stone, who is trying to prosecute a former guard at a Nazi camp, mentions that his daughter had been reading Anne Frank's diary and thought it was fiction.
  • In Last Action Hero, Jack Slater's police chief boss (Frank McRae) becomes so incoherent during an epic rant that the only few distinguishable words are "Turn in Your Badge"... and "The Diary of Anne Frank", for some reason.
  • The diary was famously a major inspiration for Neutral Milk Hotel's second album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Before the recording of their first album On Avery Island, the band's frontman Jeff Mangum read the diary and was so deeply affected by it that he spent, in his own words, "about three days crying", and had dreams of going back in time and saving Anne Frank. Several tracks on ITAOTS incorporate parts of her life into their lyrics.
  • In the Interview with the Vampire episode "...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding", Daniel Molloy compares Claudia's writing style to "Anne Frank meets Stephen King."

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