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PADDY CHAYEFSKY SPEAKS OUT. The Chayefsky script, with its crisp jargon and its fast-flowing comedy, interrupted by those arias of self-revelation and moments of heart-stopping compassion that are this writer’s hallmark, is remarkably rich in itself, as well as in comparison to the aridity of most screenwriting.
Paddy Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay (the other three-time winners, Francis Ford Coppola, Charles Brackett, Woody Allen and Billy Wilder, have all shared their awards with co-writers). He was considered one of the most renowned ...
Jul 12, 2017 · Researching Network, Chayefsky trailed Richard Wald, then president of NBC News. He met with then über-anchors John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite. In 1974, a Florida local news anchor, Christine ...
CHAYEFSKY, Sidney Aaron ("Paddy") ( b. 29 January 1923 in New York City; d. 1 August 1981 in New York City), dramatist for television, stage, and screen, whose hour-long television plays, or teleplays, won acclaim in the 1950s. When the television industry abandoned this form of programming, Chayefsky turned his attention to writing for stage ...
May 19, 2011 · The screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) won an Academy Award for his jeremiad “Network” (1976), starring Faye Dunaway. United Artists. By Dave Itzkoff. May 19, 2011. LAMENTING the lack of ...
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A Wikimédia Commons tartalmaz Paddy Chayefsky témájú médiaállományokat. Sablon • Wikidata • Segítség Paddy Chayefsky ( Bronx , New York , 1923 .
Jan 1, 1978 · Paddy Chayefsky. Edward Jessup, a neurophysiologist at the Harvard Medical School, relentlessly seeks the origins of human consciousness and, with the aide of an isolation tank and a hallucinogenic drug, regresses farther and farther into a proto-human state. 206 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1978.
