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newcritics: Paddy Chayevsky for Beginners

  • Dan Leo · 1 year ago
    Quite simply, a great American writer.

    I wish we had him around today.
  • Andrew Milner · 1 year ago
    Paddy also wrote the first draft to what became the movie version of PAINT YOUR WAGON, before Alan Jay Lerner fired him and rewrote the screenplay. I'm going to guess Paddy's version was a whole lot better.