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AUTHORS: LARRY KRAMER, DAVID MAMET, WENDY WASSERSTEIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reborn With Relevance | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...mitzvah in mid-cruise via friend John Mulheren's helicopter, went to jail; so did Mulheren, briefly (but not before setting out with an assault rifle to kill Boesky); the S&L boys are in the soup; major insurers are having their ratings lowered; M&A star Bruce Wasserstein looks a little silly -- and you mean to tell me that out of all this, unscathed, emerges Nelson Peltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: It Doesn't Take a Genius to Make a Killing | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...Wasserstein's real talent comes through in the last piece of the book, Boy Meets Girl, a one-act play between Dan and Molly, two New York City "professionalites." When Wasserstein is being the playwright, she is just as funny as she says. And her audience is broken up, the way they were back in second grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funny Girl | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...pressure Wasserstein feels to come up with material is frequently evident. Disappointment that a weekend in Maine was not a chintz-covered, Ralph Lauren-infested affair but rather one where the couch was acrylic and the drink Diet Coke is stretched to five pages. A lunch interview with Philippe de Montebello is a struggle to win his admiration. When she drops a name he recognizes, she writes, "Once again we are on equal ground." Equal ground with the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? So eager for approval, she becomes the journalistic equivalent of Sally Field at the Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funny Girl | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...Wasserstein sometimes elicits pity when she is reaching for empathy. In "Jean Harlow's Wedding Night," she describes arranging a trip to Paris to be there at the same time as a banker she has been dating, then his trying to sneak off in the morning without saying goodbye. He tells her he is involved with someone else. She slips into near hysteria, making jokes (she says they are funny) about the waiter, the croissants, the plates, the Ayatullah. They part, but she calls him later in the day to have dinner at a "hilariously hip restaurant." Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funny Girl | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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