RIP Dale Wasserman

inca un scriitor si dramaturg, Dale Wasserman, la venerabila virsta de 94 de ani. El a scris piesa Zbor deasupra unui cuib de cuci, dupa romanul lui Ken Kesey si piesa Eu Don Quichote, pe cre s- bazat muzicalul si filmul Omul din la Mancha. S-a anuntat pe 29 decembrie dar a murit pe 21.

imdb/wenn:

Broadway playwright Dale Wasserman has died of congestive heart failure, aged 94.

Wasserman, who wrote 1960s Broadway hits One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Man of La Mancha, died on 21 December at his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Man of La Mancha, which opened off-Broadway in 1965, won the Tony Award for best musical two years later, after making its move to the famed New York theatre district.

And 1963 stage hit One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest saw a revival when the beloved show was brought back to Broadway in 2001.

The celebrated writer penned more than 75 scripts for the stage, television and film during his time, including 1958 flick The Vikings, starring Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas.

His 1955 script Elisha and the Long Knives, one of 30 small screen dramas he worked on, helped television series Matinee Theater win an Emmy Award.

Wasserman is survived by his wife of 24 years, Martha Nelly Wasserman.

RIP Harold Pinter & Haralamb Zinca

2 scriitori, cum nu se poate mai diferiti...

Writer Harold Pinter Dead At 78
26 December 2008 1:33 AM, PST

Harold Pinter, who wrote 32 stage plays, 22 screenplays, numerous TV plays and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, died on Wednesday after an eight-year battle with cancer He was 78. His screenplays included The Quiller Memorandum (1965), The Last Tycoon (1976), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Reunion (1989) and Sleuth (2007). Too frail to attend the Nobel Awards in 2005, he delivered his acceptance speech on video -- and used it to denounce America's invasion of Iraq, calling it "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law." He went on to accuse the U.S. of supporting "every right-wing military dictatorship" and committing international crimes in the name of democracy. His obituary in today's (Friday) New York Times, written by theater critic Ben Brantley and the late Mel Gussow, runs a whopping 3,260 words.

si Haralamb Zinca, 85 de ani, pe numele sau real Hary Isac Zilberman, un John le Carré (combinat cu un Ludlum comunist) romanesc, unul din eroii mei in copilarie, cel mai celebru scriitor de romane politiste alaturi de Rodica Ojog Brasoveanu
Moartea vine pe banda de magnetofon (ecranizat ca Un om in loden), o Crima aproape perfecta, Mapa cenusie GR (da, Godzilla, Romania)

Topul lui Stephen King pe 2008

1. The Dark Knight – “The best superhero movie ever.”
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. WALL-E – “It certainly deserves to be nominated.”
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Funny Games – “A savage parody of the snuff-porn”
6. The Bank Job
7. Lakeview Terrace
8. The Ruins
9. Redbelt – “Not your father’s Karate Kid.”
10. Death Race
dixit King:

Let's start with a confession: I'm not trustworthy when it comes to movies. I'm two-minded about them. Take this year's Saw film. I sat there in my favorite seat — third row middle, so the screen towers above me — and my forebrain was thinking, Oh, man, this is the year's biggest pile of cinematic dog vomit. But the rest of my brain is thinking, I'm at the mooooovies! IS THIS GREAT OR WHAT?

So when I get flamed in the letters column, as I usually do after one of these lists, I know why. This is almost surely the only 10-best list you'll read that contains not one but two Jason Statham movies; it's that two-brains thing.

din Entertainment Weekly

season's greetings

yep, a bullet for the general, and Klaus as moses, mad prophet, freeing the panchos !



and as always on the 24th, LMA, Lemmy is 63 !!!
godbless und godspeed !!! probably with'em strippers santiclaus
see ya in Bucharest in 2009 !