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...writer and being friends and then he is also acting in the movie. I?m very, very fond that I met Sam a long time ago. I?ve actually worked more with novelists than screenwriters and I think it?s not a coincidence that Sam is really a playwright. He hasn?t written all that many scripts...
...Ayckbourn, the great British playwright who doesn't get enough respect in America, brought over his own Scarborough troupe to present the U.S. premiere of his chamber piece about the interconnections among six lonely London souls. Ayckbourn's delicate, understated direction showed, once again, that laughs are the least important thing in his vision of the sad comedy of ordinary lives...
...this year's Tonys certified the restoration of his career. The international success of his 2001 play The Goat, or: Who Is Sylvia, and strong Broadway revivals of his Pulitzer Prize-winners A Delicate Balance and Seascape (which both have run longer than the original productions), assure that the playwright, now 76, will not be remembered exclusively as the kid who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles, the first in their class...
...Munich Even before its release, Steven Spielberg's movie-written by playwright Tony Kushner-is being misunderstood by ideologues. It is about one of the teams Israeli assassins assigned to wreck vengeance upon the terrorists who wiped out eleven of that country's athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. As such it functions as a well-made and suspenseful thriller. But that's not its main business. Neither is a hymn of hate to the Palestinian perpetrators of that heinous crime, which was the true beginning of modern terrorism, carried out in the full glare of the media...
...Kyle Chandler of “Early Edition” fame). Denham, who’s lost his movie funding, hurries off in a boat with his lead actors and his technicians to a shoot in the high seas. Denham’s screenwriter/ Ann’s favorite playwright (quelle coincidence), Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), is unable to get ashore and is thus stuck on board for the trip to Skull Island...