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...time Yorkin and Lear crossed paths on the Martin and Lewis show two years later, the Lear-Simmons partnership was doing so well that it had to farm out some of its work to the younger team of Neil Simon, the future Broadway playwright, and his brother Danny. "To me Norman was big-time," recalls Yorkin, who was then a lowly assistant director. "He lived at the Waldorf and moved in a different world from...
DIED. JERRY STERNER, 62, playwright who penned the 1989 off-Broadway hit Other People's Money; of a heart attack; in New York City. Back when the New York subway cost 15[cents] to ride, Sterner worked the graveyard shift as a token seller. During nearly six years manning his booth, he wrote seven plays...
...naive young before they drift to sleep dreaming of the perfect mate. It flicks references to other fables of sexual predation (Fatal Attraction, Play Misty for Me), while stirring a mood of increasing emotional dread. And at its heart is the notion that an artist-anyway, a novelist or playwright?is essentially a vampire, draining friends of their essence, refashioning and distorting them into fiction, creating artistic harmony through human betrayal...
...Mark O’Donnell, who is a novelist and playwright, says that the life of a writer is like “a gypsy path”—where the wagon keeps rolling from one job to the next...
DIED. JASON MILLER, 62, playwright and actor who won a 1973 Pulitzer Prize and Tony award for That Championship Season, of a heart attack; in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The play is based on Miller's experiences on his high-school basketball team, but he is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as Father Damien Karras in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades...