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DIED. MADELINE KAHN, 57, devilishly ditsy singer-comedian; of ovarian cancer; in New York City. A diva of light farce, Kahn was Oscar-nominated for best supporting floozy in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). She won a 1993 Tony for Best Actress in The Sisters Rosensweig...
...family as artistic inspiration. Family was the first question raised by Rachel B. Tiven '97, who interviewed the playwright on stage for the first segment of the program. Wasserstein's plays revolve around her family. "Miami" describes a Jewish family vacationing in Miami Beach, and "The Sisters Rosensweig" is based loosely on Wendy and her siblings...
...coming in for TV and Cable movies to supplement her fairly steady diet of essays and short plays for magazines such as The New Yorker. Wasserstein also keeps a busy international schedule comprising speaking engagements in London, travel writing opportunities, and even a Japanese musical adaptation of "The Sisters Rosensweig." Most recently Ted Turner produced a film adaptation of "The Heidi Chronicles" for TNT starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Hulce, for which Wasserman wrote the screenplay...
Wasserstein, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, had her first play, Uncommon Women and Others, produced in 1978, and has since written four other plays, among them The Heidi Chronicles, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The Sisters Rosensweig, which enjoyed a three-year run on Broadway, earned five Tony Award nominations...
Wasserstein said she is currently working on a possible film script and an adaptation of The Sisters Rosensweig for the BBC. But she assured the audience she is not planning to write a sequel to The Heidi Chronicles...