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Havel, born in 1935 and raised in a well-to-do bourgeois family, began as an absurdist playwright in the style of Ionesco or Pinter or Beckett. An attitude of surrealist paranoia turned out to be the right moral optic through which to see the Communist world clearly, and Havel had keen eyesight. Constricted as a playwright, he became a dissident. Imprisoned as a dissident, he became a symbol. Communism was brutal and stupid and corrupt. Havel was Czechoslovakia with brains -- the country's better self, its idealist, its moral philosopher, the visionary of "living in truth." When the Communist...
...have had an unusual career, from playwright to dissident leader to President. Are you going to return to writing full time, or will you stay in politics...
...dying or emotionally depleted by the struggle. Some organizations just a few years old are in their third or fourth generation of leadership. While the heterosexual community has shown recurrent compassion, it is unlikely to feel the same sense of desperate necessity that gay men do. Says novelist and playwright Larry Kramer, who was a founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT- UP: "AIDS is just one of many things. If I were a straight married man, I'd be worried about the quality of education in the schools. That's one reason why it's so hard...
...provocative photos (most notoriously, last year's cover photo of a nude, very pregnant Demi Moore), Brown brought Vanity Fair high profits and nearly 1 million readers. At the same time, she made herself a figure to reckon with on the Manhattan scene: good-looking, Oxford-educated, a sometime playwright, married to Harold Evans, former editor of the Times of London and now head of Random House (yes, another Newhouse jewel...
Fallen Angel, a play about a rock band that is opening in Chicago next month, features a memorable jailhouse scene in which the young leader of the band visits his father, a convicted financier. Perhaps the playwright, BILLY BOESKY, understood the material all too well. His father, Ivan Boesky, served two years (1988-90) for stock-trading crimes...