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...that enacted his economic plan. The next tests will come on problems-foreign policy, defense, the environment, social issues-where the goals are harder to define, the timing can be determined by others and the players are even more intractable than the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Any half-decent playwright can turn out a good first act. After that, the characters and the events often have a way of getting out of hand...
...limelight of fame casts its deepest shadow on those who stand next to it. That is Playwright Furth's proposition in this crackling light comedy. In a belated bid for personal visibility, Ellen (Hope Lange) has written an intimately detailed roman à clef profiling her Pulitzer-prize winning (Presidents and Precedents) novelist husband and a quartet of her best friends...
...manicured silver mane crowns Jack Gilford's head, but he tugs an imaginary forelock to his hit playwright wife. As for Joyce Van Patten, endlessly dutiful homemaker to a fabulous screen idol, she scoops up her lines with the hilariously harried rush of a mother on a late laundry...
DIED. Sidney (Paddy) Chayefsky, 58, Bronx-born, barrel-chested playwright who won three Oscars (for Marty, The Hospital and Network); of cancer; in Manhattan. First successful in TV, he wrote Marty as a humorous love story, was startled when viewers cried. He had three Broadway hits (Middle of the Night, The Tenth Man and Gideon). The essence of his writing, he said, was to portray "characters caught in the decline of their society...
...company of two attractive, well-educated young women he had met at a party. At 5:30 they stopped at the Bini-Bon Restaurant near the halfway house; it is a threadbare bohemian place, open 24 hours. Behind the counter was Richard Adan, 22, an aspiring actor and playwright who worked the graveyard shift in the café, which is owned by his father-in-law Henry Howard. Adan took the "toughest duty," explains Howard, "because he was interested in people. Some curious types come in after midnight...