Friday, February 11, 2005

DEATH OF A PLAYWRIGHT: Arthur Miller, dead at 89. Leaving aside the whole marrying and divorcing Marilyn Monroe thing, and the fact that one of his plays ("The Crucible") is read by seemingly every American high school student, the best witness to his greatness is to look at the actors who have played roles he wrote on Broadway:
Even if Miller's later plays didn't reach the brilliance of his early work, he was a tremendous talent whose plays never shirked to tell the hard truths that we (and sometimes he) didn't want to hear. It is indeed a loss.

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