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Born | Howard Korder |
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Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Period | 20th century |
Howard Korder is an American screenwriter and playwright. He is the author of the 1988 coming-of-age play Boy's Life, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination.[1] His play Search and Destroy was adapted into a film in 1995.[2] Among the screenplays he has written are The Passion of Ayn Rand and Lakeview Terrace. He is also one of the writers of Boardwalk Empire.[3]
References[edit]
- ^'1988 Pulitzer Prizes'. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ^Search and Destroy at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^'Boardwalk Empire'. Emmys.com. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
External links[edit]
- Howard Korder on IMDb
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The evening is so light and uneven that one doesn't want to oversell it. Some lines fall flat, as does one entire Act II bedroom scene. Compensation can be found in Mr. Korder's many wicked jokes, about such subjects as the connection between Scandinavian educational toys and the Swedish suicide rate, the lasting cultural resonance of Justin Henry's playground accident in the film 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' and the destiny of the rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Nor is the play quite as artless as its fractionalized structure suggests. When we are belatedly introduced to Jack's much-belittled wife (Theo Cohan) in the evening's waning moments, it takes only a few lines for Mr. Korder to establish a sympathetic character who ripples retroactively through the preceding scenes, upending our settled moral judgments about much of her husband's behavior.
As directed with vitality by Mr. Macy on James Wolk's hip rollaway sets, the cast proves as promising as the author. The three leading men offer a deadly accurate sendup of masculine wiles, from the puppyish hysteria of Mr. Goldstein to the naive yet impenetrable narcissism of Mr. Lage to the witty, thinly veiled hostility of Mr. Gregg. The women are just as sharp, with perhaps the best bits falling to Melissa Bruder as a waitress who conducts a tug-of-war with her suitor over a dinner check and Felicity Huffman as a jogger who has never seen the movie 'It's a Wonderful Life' and is proud not to follow its humanitarian example. 'Boys' Life' is, if anything, the exact philosophical antithesis of 'It's a Wonderful Life.' It offers boyish misanthropy as an antidote, welcome or not, to past and present cultural myths about the perfectability of the American man. THE MALE ANIMAL - BOYS' LIFE, by Howard Korder; directed by W. H. Macy; sets by James Wolk; costumes by Donna Zakowska; lighting by Steve Lawnick; sound by Aural Fixation; original music composed by David Yazbek; production manager, Jeff Hamlin.
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