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...great year for Art Deco. The hype for Barbra Streisand's auction of her extensive Deco collection has been almost as impressive as the objects themselves. And now the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, have made a movie in which the massive moderne settings by production designer Dennis Gassner and the glowing light cast on them by cinematographer Roger Deakins make you wonder how a decorative style at once so sleek and warm could ever have fallen out of favor...
...year-old McPherson has often been facetious about considering himself a playwright. Whatever he names himself, there are not many writing on this scale: Marvin's Room received the 1992 Drama Desk Award for Best Play, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the John Gassner Playwrighting award, the Whiting Writer's Award, and the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award...
...Theater and Academy last month switched its group subscription from Show to T.D.R. ANTA's 4,800 members will increase the magazine's circulation to nearly 15,000, placing it among the leading literary quarterlies. "T.D.R. started off as a valuable magazine," says Yale Drama Professor John Gassner; "now it is indispensible for anyone connected with the theater...
...Broadway's Oscars) already on its mantel, Virginia probably got a bigger box-office boost by losing than by joining the 16 prizewinners. Bed & Booze. The jurors, though, were loudly upset. "Farce," cried Critic John Mason Brown. "We've had enough," said Yale Drama Professor J. W. Gassner, who recalled that when he and Brown recommended Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic in 1960, it was jettisoned for the musical Fiorello! Both jurors quit. Apparently, the play's preoccupation with bed and booze proved too much for some of the 14 Advisory Board members...
...JULIUS GASSNER Lafayette...