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Awful News
By Kyle | August 7, 2012
Mark O’Donnell, who wrote the book for “Hairspray” and other shows, has died suddenly in his Upper West Side building. Mark was a top-flight comedy writer who nevertheless, pre-Hairspray, used to tell me he was “destitute” and was glad to write brief (and hilarious) book reviews for me when I was an editor at People magazine. I was glad when he struck it rich but it’s stunning to learn he’s gone so soon. He was a sweet and kind man. I stopped by his Riverside Drive apartment once to drop off a book I needed him to review on deadline — and this picture looks like the building as I recall it. Meaning he didn’t move to a fancy place even after writing one of the biggest Broadway hits of his era.
Topics: Comedy, New York City |
August 7th, 2012 at 10:33 am
Sad. Marvin Hamlisch too.
April 9th, 2013 at 12:40 am
Headline, this morning, from the site featuring Mr. O’D’s obit:
‘”Bronx Bribery Bust Leaves the Fate of Two State Assembly Seats Uncertain.”
No uncertainty exists. The seats will be relocated to Prison Cells 459A & B in Dannemora, N.Y., where all future business will be conducted, without further interruption.
I mean, if you buy things, shouldn’t you get to keep them?