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...massive overdose of Nembutal, Stephen Ward-liar, drug user, pornographer, libertine and convicted pimp-was cremated in the London suburb of Mortlake. Though his solicitor had asked that no flowers be sent, there was a wreath of two hundred roses from, among others, Playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, Critic Kenneth Tynan, Novelists Angus Wilson and Alan Sillitoe, Jazzman Acker Bilk (who later withdrew his name). With the flowers came a note: "To Stephen Ward, victim of British hypocrisy." Explained Tynan: "British society created him, used him, and ruthlessly destroyed him. The Establishment has closed its ranks around its body...
...KITCHEN. Something not often done and less often done well: a socialistic shocker. Working from a pink-hot play by Britain's Arnold Wesker. Director James Hill gives the capitalist system a thorough roasting in 74 minutes...
...Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker flings capitalism in the soup and serves it piping...
...Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker flings capitalism in the soup and serves it piping...
...Kitchen. Too many cooks cannot spoil this spluttering slumgullion of socialism and melodrama, heated to a rolling boil by British Playwright Arnold Wesker...