Word: playwrights
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...What an amalgam of Jewish brain and Italian muscle! What a collision of the scurrying nebbish (Sidney) and the soaring predator (falcon)! Sidney is the protagonist of "Sweet Smell of Success," originally a novelette by Ernest Lehman, published in 1950 in Cosmopolitan. Seven years later, the story, rewritten by playwright Clifford Odets, was made into a film directed by Alexander Mackendrick and starring Curtis as Sidney and Lancaster as the Winchellesque columnist J.J. Hunsecker - another fabulous name, for an Attila who sucks the honey out of his minions and spits it into print. Last week, transformed into a John Lithgow...
...that he emerged from but by the one that followed him. In fact, according to the PBS film, the private Kelly was as "grounded" as his dance style. Unlike half of Hollywood in the 40s, he was not in analysis "Some people are successfully blocked," says playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents, "and he was one of them. He was happy with himself." His theme song could have been the solo he sings in "It?s Always Fair Weather": "I like myself...
...DIED. INGE MORATH, 78, award-winning photographer and wife of four decades to playwright Arthur Miller; in New York City. Famed for her celebrity portraits as well as her extensive work in the Soviet Union and China, Morath spent over half a century with the Magnum photo agency. She produced more than two dozen books, including several collaborations with her husband. DIED. HILDEGARD KNEF, 76, gravel-voiced German star of post-WWII era films who found later success as a singer in musicals and as an author; in Berlin. Perhaps best known for her role in Germany's first movie...
...grim mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this remarkable and anguished work...
Weber’s review lavishes praise on Jarcho, singling her out from the other playwrights. “The title, with its ominously ironic suggestion of the nurturing of the very young, is a good indication of Ms. Jarcho’s sophistication,” he writes. “The playwright creates a hothouse for the misguided malevolence that might result in grievous disaster...