Arthur Miller Dead
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | American playwright Miller dies.
He's most famous to young people today as the voice of Moe in The Simpsons. Not really. When you hear/read American Republicans using the word "liberal" as a term of abuse, Arthur Miller was who they're talking about, completely missing the irony re witchhunts, McCarthyism etc.
Ernie Wise is my favourite playwright, though I always respected Miller; I also loved the incongruity of his marriage to Marilyn: as if Stephen Fry married Nicole Kidman.
He's most famous to young people today as the voice of Moe in The Simpsons. Not really. When you hear/read American Republicans using the word "liberal" as a term of abuse, Arthur Miller was who they're talking about, completely missing the irony re witchhunts, McCarthyism etc.
Ernie Wise is my favourite playwright, though I always respected Miller; I also loved the incongruity of his marriage to Marilyn: as if Stephen Fry married Nicole Kidman.
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Friday, February 11, 2005
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