Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Levin, playwright and author (Deathtrap, The Boys from Brazil), on cooking: "I find it very hard to think of putting a lot of effort into something which is going to be gone...
...aloof from the Damon Runyon characters of the sport's golden age. George Bernard Shaw, an avid fight fan, was more to Tunney's taste, despite the fact that the heavyweight refused an offer to appear in Shaw's boxing play, Cashel Byron's Profession. He believed that the playwright had portrayed fighters as simple and dimwitted, and Gene Tunney was neither...
...editor in general. In contrast to the relationship between an actor and a director, an editor is "like another self, another set of eyes"; "no interference"impedes his rapport with the writer. An actor and his director, on the other hand, can never work in isolation; the playwright's words always interject the presence of a third person, as do the other performers. The theater remains first and foremost a group effort; otherwise, "the play cannot live...
...gifted German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder hired Playwright Tom Stoppard, author of that Nabokovian whimsy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, to adapt Despair for the screen. Except for one grave lapse, he has done so effectively and with suitable reverence, and Fassbinder has assembled a first-rate cast...
Apted's actors love the English language as much as the playwright does. The spare, precise dialogue practically detonates from their lips. Bates, playing the paranoid husband, is the quintessential Pinter menace: if looks could kill, the rest of the cast would be dead. He is well countered by McDowell in the role of a serpentine climber who may or may not be sleeping with both a male housemate and Bates' wife. As McDowell's keeper, a prissy old couturier, Olivier has The Collection's only openly emotional scene. It is a shocker. When he falls...