Wednesday Feb 1 | Naples Daily News
Ex-actor, screenwriter rekindles love of writing
Forty years after its outline was originally written, the first draft of a new novel by part-time Naples resident Donahue Silvis was finally finished.
It's puzzling to watch a good play fall out of fashion. Paul Zindel's "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" was written in 1964, opened Off Broadway in 1970, wowed the New York critics, won a Pulitzer Prize, was turned into a movie by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 1972 and looked like a deservedly sure thing in the posterity ... (more)
"The Effect of Gamma Rays" at Palm Beach...
Legend has it that in the process of filming the 1972 movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds , lead actress Joanne Woodward became so engrossed in her sordid part that it strained her relationships off set.
Multiple mistakes? Author details flaws in famous psychiatry case
In 1973, journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber published a book about a psychiatric patient who experienced 16 separate personalities.
The long-lasting marriage of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward was one of the most famous marriages in Hollywood.
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