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RIP Harold Pinter

Yankeefan007

Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04

#1RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 9:19am

Harold Pinter has died at the age of 78, reportedly from liver cancer (he had also been suffering from esophageal cancer). The Nobel prize winner died on Christmas Eve.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7799708.stm

ETA: I've been engrossed in Simon Grey's "Smoking Diaries" over the past few months, in which Pinter played a huge part, as they were dear friends. It's interesting to see they died within months of one another.

Updated On: 12/25/08 at 09:19 AM

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#2re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 9:29am

So upsetting. He's one of my favorite contemporary playwrights.

"Peace! The charm's wound up." --Macbeth

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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05

#2re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 9:31am

Let's all take a pause to remember.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

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#3re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 9:46am

Rest in peace, and thank you for all you've brought to the theatre.

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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04

#4re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 9:48am

Good one Smaxie.
I never did like him.

RIP

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#5re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 10:12am

This shocked me when I found out.

R.I.P.

Everything in life...is only for now.

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#6re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 10:45am

May he rest in peace.

keep it real up there, Pinter.

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
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#7re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 11:11am

RIP Harold.

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

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#8re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 11:28am

Rest In Peace. Roundabout's favorite. I'll for thank for allowing me to see Juliette Binoche in "Betrayal" and I'll forgive you for "Ashes To Ashes."

Peace.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

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#9re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 11:36am

re: RIP Harold Pinter

My mother woke me up to tell me this. I've just recently been exposed to his work, but I'm grateful for it.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

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#10re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 12:52pm

Rest. [Pause.] In. [Pause.] Peace.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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#11re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 1:01pm

Lovely post Smaxie.

My sympathies to Mr. Pinter's friends and family. May he rest in peace.

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#12re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 1:14pm

How can one not respect the greatest put-down of the century?

"You'd bend over for half a dollar on Blackfriars Bridge. For two bob and a toffee apple."

I use that all the time to describe people out here in Hollywood.

Gracias, Harold.

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#13re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 1:22pm

RIP Mr. Pinter.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05

#14re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 2:16pm

Very glad for his legacy. RIP

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

wonkit

Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08

#15re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 3:23pm

I finally began to appreciate Mr. Pinter after seeing last year's Broadway production of THE HOMECOMING. May he rest in peace.

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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04

#16re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 4:31pm

RIP

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#17re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 4:43pm

Just recently introduced to his work, via the revival of the Homecoming, but my God what a wonderful play for actors!! The choices that Eve Best made in the role of Ruth... RIP.

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#18re: RIP Harold Pinter
Posted: 12/25/08 at 5:00pm

Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt. Sad Christmas, but what legacies both of them left.

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