Classic: October 2007 Archives
Another podcast from the 2005: Humor Seminar features Wendy Wasserstein "Shiksa Goddess: Or, How I Spent My Forties". The panel that immediately
preceded Wasserstein that afternoon had concluded that writers must mask
the identities of family members who were the basis for comic characters
in their work. Wassertstein discussed her play "The Sisters Rosensweig"
which featured a character named "Gorgeous", who was remarkably similar
to Wendy's own sister. "When your sister is named Gorgeous, and you're
named Wendy, I think you get to talk about it," she laughed.
Sadly, Wendy Wasserstein, a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning
playwright who chronicled the triumphs and travails of modern American
women, died a year later in Jan. 2006, of lymphoma.
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At the 2005 Seminar on Humor, Bruce Jay Friedman read his short story "A Change of Plan", originally published in Esquire Magazine. Friedman talked about how the story made the journey to the screen with the 1972 Elaine May-helmed "The Heartbreak Kid" (just remade starring Ben Stiller). It's a great tale of a young writer's seduction by Hollywood, the now-quaint notion of "prostituting yourself" and the consoling power of room service.
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