Word: eder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth time in 20 years, the dramatis personae at the New York Times theater department are being shuffled. Come September the curtain will fall on Richard Eder, 46, who in his two years as chief drama critic managed to pan several of Broadway's biggest hits, including Dracula, Deathtrap and Dancin'. His replacement is the paper's Sunday theater scribe Walter Kerr, 66, who joined the Times in 1966 after 15 years at the Herald Tribune, and is the only drama reviewer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism (1978). As head of the newly combined...
...Brooks Atkinson, the Times'near legendary daily critic, Kerr hopes to provide readers with critiques they "can understand, enjoy-if possible-and agree with after they've seen the show." Whether that will fortify the paper's waning influence on the Great White Way remains uncertain. Eder, a former foreign correspondent, will be assigned elsewhere at the Times, having rejected an offer from Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal to play a supporting role to Kerr's lead in the theater section. Said Eder of his unexpectedly brief engagement: "I think my work is valuable and honest...
William O. Taylor is publisher of the Boston Globe, and Richard Eder is theater critic of The New York Times...
Simon attacks not only players and plays but also fellow critics. This fall he accused the New York Times's Richard Eder of such "tergiversation, equivocation, doublethink and simultaneous talking out of both corners of his mouth as took his predecessor, Clive Barnes [now at the New York Post], years of painstaking practice to master." Colleagues are quick to pan Simon in return: "The Count Dracula of critics!" (Andrew Sarris, the Village Voice); "The Transylvanian vampire!" (Robert Brustein. Yale Drama School); "Personally offensive!" (Brendan Gill, The New Yorker). Many of Simon's critics, however, would not dispute...
...superiors explain that it was easier to find a new theater critic (second-string Times film reviewer Richard Eder) than to replace Oxford-schooled Balletomane Barnes as dance expert, the job for which he was imported from London in 1965. There were other possible reasons: many in Manhattan's theater community resented Barnes' immense power, and some disliked his tendency to review plays as works of literature rather than live performances. Barnes, 49, has also starred in local gossip columns concerning some marital problems, and his bosses at the Times were thought to be not amused, a prudishness...