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Playwrite Arthur Miller is dead today...


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SamKinison12345Feb 11, 2005 7:39am
Arthur Miller, the author of the landmark drama Death of Salesman and widely regarded as America's greatest living playwright, has died. He was 89.

Miller was battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, according to the New York Post, which first reported the writer's illness on Feb. 11. He had been receiving hospice care at Copeland's New York apartment but, earlier this week, asked to be taken by ambulance to his longtime home in Roxbury, Connecticut.

Click below to read article from livewire.
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P.S. He was married to Marylin Monroe at one time.
122797Feb 11, 2005 7:49am
That raises the interesting question: Who is America's greatest living playwright?

SK: I think you know that posting the same link four times in one post is against all SU commandments. Do you want to spend the next 24 hours in the corner?

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HapaxFeb 11, 2005 8:12am
2 Is the spelling "playwright" not offtopic in a thread about "Playwrite Arthur Miller"?

Edward Albee ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") still alive?

So many questions, so few answers . . .
122797Feb 11, 2005 8:23am
Well, Hapax, isn't that a marvellous way to enter the discussion. Sarcasm. Just because we have some imagined topography in common, don't think I won't treat you as severely as the other reprobates.

Now, back to the story. Edward Albee

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HapaxFeb 11, 2005 8:31am
4 Well, if an innocent question is to be high-handedly taken for sarcasm, I'm not sure if I feel comfortable here.

But before I go, tell me, is topography what you get on page three of the Sun?
122797Feb 11, 2005 8:35am
Your wit has saved you, Hapax, and in the nick of time. You remain, however, in the debit column. Take care.

A leading light of the left-wing theatre scene, Miller was called to testify in front of House of Un-American Activities Commission in 1956. Other artists buckled when targeted by Joe McCarthy's witch-hunters. Miller did not, steadfastly refusing to provide the names of friends with communist sympathies. For good measure, he also damned his tormentors in his work: while The Crucible was nominally set in 17th-century Salem, most viewers knew precisely that its target was rather close to home.

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djGregEllsFeb 11, 2005 11:28am
One hell of an author. Death of a playwrite.


Playwrite Arthur Miller is dead today...

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