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"Arthur Miller 1915 - 2005"

Today legendary playwrite Arthur Miller died, having suffered Cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition for many years. Aged 89.

Arthur Miller is probably most famous by movie lovers for being Marilyn Monroe's third husband. But for me he is most famous for his re-invention of the american drama with classics such as "Death of A Salesman" that won him many awards.

Miller's stage plays have been adapted many times and Miller also wrote novels, short stories and essays, an autobiography, Timebends, and the screenplays to The Misfits (1961), starring Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, and The Crucible (1996), starring Daniel Day Lewis and Joan Allen.

May his spirit live on within his writing.

Oh I may go to that!

Flock wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> Don't see the fuss myself. He wrote and got rich off a play that
>
> everyone was forced to read in schools.
>
>
> I thought it was exactly the opposite, because it was so
> un-american(being about failure) it wasn't performed in many places
> and almost certainly wouldn't have been taught in schools. Didn't the
> publisher want to change the ending as well?

Yay, it's on at the Lyric theatre from may 10th
Boo, He's being played by Brian Feckin' Dennehy

Has anyone else found they keep getting edit and reply mixed up or is it just me?

monkey_man wrote:
> Don't see the fuss myself. He wrote and got rich off a play that

> everyone was forced to read in schools.

Fool, you weren't "forced" to read it at school back in the 1940's when it was a huge hit. I am not forced to read it now but the play is a legend. Brought the situation of "flash back" storytelling to the mainstream. Genius.

I think I may re-read the journeys of Happy, Biff, Willy, Linda and Charlie. One of the greatest post war american plays ever written.

Yeah, let's be fair - the guy deserves a bit of respect.

hahahaha you people are sick basts! :D

monkey_man wrote:
> munn wrote:
> I read Death Of A Salsman
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> Is that like Death Of A Salsaman?

Oh no no no, it doesn't have the same flavour to it.

Dringo wrote:
> Don't assume a thing.

Cause it'll make and ass out of you, and me. Ho ho ho.

munn wrote:
> I read Death Of A Salsman

Is that like Death Of A Salsaman?

Don't see the fuss myself. He wrote and got rich off a play that everyone was forced to read in schools, then he got to bone Marilyn Monroe probably more than once.