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Enter, stage right, the young and oh-so-handsome Clifford Anderson (played by the young and oh-so-handsome Christopher Reeve), an aspiring playwright and adoring former student of Sidney's at Stonybrook. Clifford has written a play called Deathtrap, a sure-fire smash which turns his professor green with envy, and he brings it to the Hamptons for some polishing up. He also brings his outline and all his notes. No other copy of the play exists (the xerox is "on the fritz"); he lives alone; no one else has read his incipient masterpiece. Maces and daggers loom ominously...
...DEATHTRAP...
Also appearing in the theaters this week is the adaptation of the hit Broadway show Deathtrap, in which homosexuality is used more to give a sharp twist to the first-act ending than as prime subject matter, though at one Los Angeles screening someone cried out at the sight of Michael Caine kissing Co-Star Christopher Reeve, "Say it isn't so, Superman!" This spring will bring Partners, about a gay policeman (John Hurt) and a straight one (Ryan O'Neal) who set up housekeeping in the Los Angeles homosexual community in order to entrap a murderer...
...couple led a golden life, dashing between a residence in London and a spacious apartment on Fifth Avenue. They became patrons of the arts, donating at least $200,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and invested in Broadway plays. One hit: Deathtrap, the long-running suspense comedy about a man plotting to kill his wife...
...role in the film version of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Actor Michael Caine is dressed to kill in a $2,500 Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript...