Word: playwrights
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MARRIED. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, playwright President of the Czech Republic, and DAGMAR VESKRNOVA, mid-40s, a prominent Czech actress; at a municipal hall, in Prague. It is the second marriage for both. Havel is recovering from the removal of a malignant tumor and half his right lung...
...like The Birthday Party and The Lover that are in fact the opposite of cheery, HAROLD PINTER, 75, could be thought of as a bit of a downer. But there was nothing grim about his reaction to the news that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The playwright told reporters he was "bowled over" by the $1.3 million award. He didn't mean it literally; the wound on his head came from a recent fall. Here's hoping we'll finally get a Pinteresque award-acceptance speech. Nothing says elation like tense silence and nameless menace...
...DIED. AUGUST WILSON, 60, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; of liver cancer, with which he was diagnosed in June; in Seattle. In the year before his death, Wilson saw the debut of Radio Golf, the last of his 10-play cycle, one for each decade, on the black experience and African-Americans' struggles with the legacy of slavery in 20th century America. Most of his works were set in Pittsburgh, his childhood hometown. While some critics faulted his plays for what they saw as a crippling focus on race, most hailed Wilson's unerring ear for dialogue and emotion...
...fantasy sequences, just gags a-go-go. "It's packed full of comedy," Stroman says. "It's a comedy musical more than it is a musical comedy." Much of the Broadway cast returns, although two key roles are taken over by movie stars: Will Ferrell as a neo-Nazi playwright, and Uma Thurman as a Swedish casting-couch cutie. (At 6-ft.-plus, both actors tower over their leading men: Broderick is 5 ft. 8 in., and he's the tall...
...asking for your mind because your thinking about Africa has to change before you can help Africans. The recent outpouring of humanitarian concern for Africa has been touching, but also a bit disturbing. As Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele wrote, “All too often, Africans see themselves mirrored in the eyes of the West—of those rich former colonial powers who like to regard Africans only as victims. And, all too often, Africans become the distorted images reflected in these mirrors...