Applause Theatre Cinema Book Publishers | ISBN:1557838283 | File Type: PDF, 184 pages | File size: 75.Mb | Sep. 18th, 2012
General Entertainment Biography Autobiography: A Life Completed Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo He also garnered impressive credits as a screenwriter The Way We Were and stage director La Cage aux Folles Such a varied professional life makes for absorbing reading as unleashed in his lively 2000 autobiography Original Story By Laurents passed away early in 2011 but not before writing The Rest of the Story in which he revealed all that had happened in his life since Original Story By filled with the wisdom he gained by growing older and a new perspective brought on by Laurents experience of deep personal loss including the death of his longtime companion Tom Hatcher Laurents style remains engrossing and brutally honest His voice is still highly intelligent loving generous and gracious He remained committed to his artistic vision to the very end as captured in the epilogue which he completed only days before his death The book ends with a loving and insightf coda by Laurent s good friend and the editor of this book David Saint which reveals the real story of his death
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