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...murder's infamy usually derives from the renown of the victim or the ghastliness of the crime. But when Richard Adan, 22, a budding playwright and a waiter, was stabbed last summer by a restaurant patron, the fascination focused on the killer: Jack Henry Abbott, Marxist, existentialist, prison murderer, author (In the Belly of the Beast) and, beginning a few weeks before Adan's killing, literary celebrity (see ESSAY). On his 38th birthday last week in Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory...
Silence fell over the Manhattan courtroom where Abbott is on trial on a charge of murdering Adan, 22, a waiter and an aspiring playwright, last July-a bare six weeks after Abbott had been released from prison on the urging of Novelist Norman Mailer. Not a cough sounded as Abbott, 37, gave some grisly details of the aftermath of the 5 a.m. stabbing outside the Bini-Bon restaurant where Adan had worked. Adan, Abbott related, "said, 'You didn't have to kill me.' He started going backward. From his face he looked like he was dead...
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory play themselves. Wally a New York playwright whose plays no one will bother to produce. Andre a world-renowned dramatist and incurable manic-depressive whose obsession with death seems to be the drug that keeps him plugged into the world. Andre invites his old friend Wally to come and meet him to talk and enjoy dinner at a lavish Manhattan restaurant...
...Velde's life before World War II was almost a prototype of the lot of the unrecognized artist: hunger, despair and an unending search for patrons. After the war, he attracted supporters who saw in his work a sense of the absurd that reflected the existentialist experience. Commented Playwright Samuel Beckett: "He confronts without restriction and complacency the anguishes of our time...
THIS RESPECT for history is perhaps at the root of her highly celebrated feud with Lillian Hellman, the playwright and author. "The fact is that I think people have become increasingly concerned with the factual basis of Miss Hellman's recreation of history," she says. The dispute is a long-standing one, dating back to the publication of Miss Hellman's Scoundrel Time, which singles out Lionel and Diana Trilling as too sympathetic with the "scoundrels" of the McCarthy era. The Trillings, however, maintained that it was possible to oppose the red baiting tactics of the '50s without explicitly endorsing...