Arthur Laurents, the playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway's landmark shows, "Gypsy" and "West Side Story," and created one of Hollywood's most well-known romances, "The Way We Were," died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93. ...
His film credits include Hitchcock's "Rope"; "Anastasia," with Ingrid Bergman; and "The Turning Point," with Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine. His screenplay for "The Way We Were," with Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, was adapted from his novel by the same name.
But the stage was his first love, and he wrote for it for 65 years...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/arthur-laurents-playwright-and-director-dies-at-93.html
Jonathan Lomma, Laurents' agent ... added that Laurents had told him that when he died, he wanted it noted that "he was predeceased by his partner, Tom Hatcher, with whom he had lived in happiness for more than 50 years." ...
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