Word: rudnick
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...task the writers faced in this issue was not simply telling a story but also bringing special insight. Playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Addams Family Values) stirred up a refreshing appraisal of the iconic appeal of Marilyn Monroe, focusing on the legacy of her celluloid image instead of the tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery...
...Paul Rudnick, author of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, writes for stage and screen
...solid gags in Frank Oz's deft direction of Paul Rudnick's pointed script, the biggest one is that it's not just Howard who seems gay. So do the teachers, the town barber, Howard's stolid brother. And what exactly is the gay style in a time when bullying machismo rules on the street and on the screen? It is to be pleasant, considerate, gently witty--virtues once celebrated in American life and Hollywood comedies...
...PAUL RUDNICK, a playwright and screenwriter, is the author of the play and film Jeffrey and the film Addams Family Values...
...reporting and writing our package--which includes an update on the worldwide epidemic, a report on the impact of the new drugs on AIDS victims and an essay by playwright-screenwriter Paul Rudnick--went to a team of science journalists already highly informed, having produced a string of AIDS cover stories. Staff writer Christine Gorman, who wrote what she calls the "medical detective story," covered the first international AIDS conference for TIME in 1985. "Back then all the scientists and all the journalists could fit into one room," she recalls. She met Ho six years ago, and was immediately struck...