Word: writer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall," a writer's racy pen-name personality be gins to dominate his life. So his wife also develops an alter ego. Starring George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton...
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. No one expects a new comic writer to be another Neil Simon or Jean Kerr. But one does expect him to be funny and to be himself. Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself. Eileen Heckart, playing the mother of a blind young man who seeks independence by moving into his own apartment, can groan and pun-like a baritone sax-and delivers her lines almost as if Gershe had delivered the goods...
MEDIUM COOL. Using contemporary politics for a backdrop, and making the most of a cast of unkowns, Writer-Director Haskell Wexler explodes with a film that is dynamite...
...remarkable book, Soul of Wood, Jakov Lind fixed the grayed and monstrous mindscape of wartime Germany more vividly than any other writer except Günter Grass. It is surprising, therefore, to realize that Lind, who was born in Vienna and lived out the war in Holland and Germany, is not a German author at all and now does not even write in German, his first language. He is, in fact, a 42-year-old Londoner (by adoption) who writes in English. His past still troubles him so that he refuses, for instance, to read the writing of most Germans...
...autobiography is complete unless its writer arranges to fall dead across the last page of corrected proofs, and Lind's account is no exception. But the book has a certain unity. At the end, young Lind has fled and fumbled his way backward from extinction to his tribal beginnings, and is now as ready as any two-year-old to start life...