Thursday, February 10, 2005

Death of a Playwright

Or
Exit Stage Left

Or
It's Miller Time
(Props to Monty for the previous two)

Or
After the Fall(Kudos to Craig)

And of course everyone had the same thought for the main headline

Arthur Miller, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman, challenged Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare in The Crucible and spent 5 years nailing Marilyn Monroe, has died at the age of 89. Miller overcame his University of Michigan education to become one of the leading lights of the American theater with his stories about family, responsibility and morality. Death of a Salesman made him an overnight success and earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. He got a taste of the seedier side of fame during his doomed marriage to the blonde bombshell. While the marriage to a woman whose knees should have been captured in the cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater surprised many, Marilyn took it as validation: “Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde." He also won the Tony in 1953 for The Crucible, a parable of the Communist hunt set during the Salem witch trials, and the New York Drama Critics’ award for best play for All My Sons, which was later adapted for television as My Three Sons.

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