Mel Gussow, Critic, Dies at 71
Mel Gussow, Critic, Dies at 71
#0Mel Gussow, Critic, Dies at 71
Posted: 4/30/05 at 8:12pm
"Mel Gussow, the longtime critic and cultural reporter for The New York Times who championed the work of many of the major playwrights of the post World War II period, including Harold Pinter, Edward Albee and Tom Stoppard, died Friday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He was 71 and lived in Manhattan."
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"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
Updated On: 4/30/05 at 08:12 PM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#1re: Mel Gussow, Critic, Dies at 71
Posted: 4/30/05 at 8:35pm
An extremely talented writer and inciteful critic. In addition to his many decades of reviews, I also enjoyed his books of interviews with Arthur Miller, Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard and his terrific bio of Edward Albee. He shall be missed.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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Updated On: 5/1/05 at 08:35 PM
#3re: Mel Gussow, Critic, Dies at 71
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:08amHis writing always made me feel smarter. The obit quotes the story he tell of the description of Streetcar by the actor who plays the doctor: "It's about this doctor who takes this crazy lady off to an asylum." RIP, Mel.
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