Word: drame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drame à Clef. Osborne uses the occasion to contrast the manipulative vampirism of the producer with the task and plight of the writer. At play's end, the band of esthetic fugitives receive word that their boss has committed suicide. Some English reviewers have interpreted the play as a drame a clef-Osborne's public vendetta with Producer-Director Tony Richardson after a recent bitter breakup of their long working relationship. Ordinary audiences, however, can hardly be expected to make sense of arcane theatrical gossip...
...reporting a Zanuck film, Crack in the Mirror, TIME'S critic wrote, "Justice, however, is not done in the screen credits, where Producer Zanuck, under the pseudonym, Mark Canfield, generously accepts full responsibility for the screenplay." Nor is justice done by TIME to the author of the novel, Drame dans un Miroir, on which the film is based. That...