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MARRIED. Harold Pinter, 50, English playwright (The Homecoming, Betrayal); and Lady Antonia Fraser, 48, socialite and biographer (Mary Queen of Scots, Royal Charles); both for the second time; in London. Lady Antonia has six children from her marriage to Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser; Pinter has one son from his marriage to Actress Vivien Merchant...
...headed West, where she remained for the rest of her life. She Done Him Wrong (1933) was her first big picture, and audiences were enchanted by her earthy humor and the total lack of the hypocrisy that was convention in most other films of the time. As an established playwright, she was allowed to write her own dialogue, and thus began the long list of famous Westian one-liners. "Haven't you ever met a man who could make you happy?" Co-Star Cary Grant asks her. "Sure," she replies. "Lots of times." Before they go off together...
...Gilda Radner sparring with a spilled pot of coffee and juggling a scalding-hot spoon, and Sam Waterston watching the page proofs of his upcoming book unreel inexorably into a goldfish tank. All of which goes to prove that Director Mike Nichols is still a playwright's best friend...
...Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard is a kind of family doctor among contemporary dramatists. He probes the aches and pain of a lifetime. Drumm (Roy Dotrice), the unheroic hero of A Life, whom we first met in Leonard's "Da, " is an aging civil servant with razor-blade lips and a cut tingly witty tongue. He is dying of cancer, and what he finds out in this play is that he has squandered his life by suppressing...
...choice of Nicholas Nickleby required an entire show to be put together in six months from a play that did not exist. Nunn chose David Edgar, a young British playwright whose work the R.S.C. had staged in the Warehouse, its smaller theater in Covent Garden, to adapt a script from the teeming incidents of Dickens' 800-plus pages. "I was writing Part 2 while rewriting Part 1, and it was all constantly changing," Edgar recalls. Five weeks before the opening, he had reached only the mid-point of Part...