Corrected.Mister Tee wrote:Just for the record, it should be "Schisgal".
Incidentally, John Briley who won that Oscar for Gandhi died last December at 94.
R.I.P. Murray Schisgal
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Re: R.I.P. Murray Schisgal
Incidentally, John Briley who won that Oscar for Gandhi died last December at 94.
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Re: R.I.P. Murray Shisgal
Just for the record, it should be "Schisgal".
No one's ever been entirely certain who's most responsible for Tootsie, but all contributions are sensational, so whatever he did mattered.
He was a very big name in NY theatre when I was coming of age, so I'm surprised how thin his overall resume is. I was never crazy about Luv (onstage, I mean; the movie is supposedly wretched); its sour moments work against its funny ones, for me. I recently saw the movie of The Tiger Makes Out, and found it enjoyable. Can't really say he's done anything else worth noting.
But, as Sabin rightly notes, he should be an Oscar winner: one of the most glaring Oscar robberies of my lifetime.
No one's ever been entirely certain who's most responsible for Tootsie, but all contributions are sensational, so whatever he did mattered.
He was a very big name in NY theatre when I was coming of age, so I'm surprised how thin his overall resume is. I was never crazy about Luv (onstage, I mean; the movie is supposedly wretched); its sour moments work against its funny ones, for me. I recently saw the movie of The Tiger Makes Out, and found it enjoyable. Can't really say he's done anything else worth noting.
But, as Sabin rightly notes, he should be an Oscar winner: one of the most glaring Oscar robberies of my lifetime.
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