Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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DIED. Ben Travers, 94, British playwright whose comedies about rational people struggling with outrageous circumstances tickled audiences for five decades; in London. Travers kept the laughs coming right up to 1976, when at 89 he staged The Bed Before Yesterday, a hit sex farce starring Joan Plowright...
Anthony Burgess's versatility is indisputable. He is a novelist, playwright, composer and linguist, as well as a critic whose dissenting views on modern culture have frequently boiled over into newspapers and magazines. But Burgess, 63, is no club Tory grumbling behind his Times and Spectator. He is a rugged, independent Christian humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning...
MARRIED. Harold Pinter, 50, English playwright (The Homecoming, Betrayal); and Lady Antonia Fraser, 48, socialite and biographer (Mary Queen of Scots, Royal Charles); both for the second time; in London. Lady Antonia has six children from her marriage to Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser; Pinter has one son from his marriage to Actress Vivien Merchant...
James Fenton, drama critic of the Sunday Times, called the play "a nauseating load of rubbish," and yearned for the resignation of National Theater Director Peter Hall, who steadfastly stood by Brenton and the production. Playwright Edward Bond weighed in with a defense so oblique that he never mentioned the play by name. He did, however, call for the resignation of Fenton, while John Osborne, who has had his own wrangles with the censor, addressed a sally to the Guardian: "Sir-I don't go to the theater to see a lot of buggery. We get quite enough...
...headed West, where she remained for the rest of her life. She Done Him Wrong (1933) was her first big picture, and audiences were enchanted by her earthy humor and the total lack of the hypocrisy that was convention in most other films of the time. As an established playwright, she was allowed to write her own dialogue, and thus began the long list of famous Westian one-liners. "Haven't you ever met a man who could make you happy?" Co-Star Cary Grant asks her. "Sure," she replies. "Lots of times." Before they go off together...