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MILBURN SMITH
(1934 - 2002)Nationality: USA
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Milburn D. Smith, playwright, TV scribe and longtime magazine man, died of pancreatic cancer Sept. 8 at his home in Forest Hills, N.Y. He was 68. A noted entertainment journalist in the 1960s and '70s, Smith profiled such A-list celebrities as Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, Johnny Cash and Sophia Loren. His stories appeared in prominent magazines including Photoplay, Coronet, and Pageant. Before he retired last year, Smith served as associate publisher for the Starlog Group. New York native's first love, however, was the stage, and throughout his career he penned numerous plays including Swoosie Kurtz starrer "Sensations of the Bitten Partner," "The Ten O' Clock Hour" featuring Bill Bixby, "Bloodsport" and "Breakfast at Schlankenwald." Smith also dabbled in TV writing - "Hollywood Diaries" pic made for American Movie Classics and material for Disney Channel's "Playhouse Disney" - and authored several books including novel "Wings of Darkness: and nonfictioners "The Teen Scene" and "365 Ways." He most recently wrote the book for "Flim Flam," a new musical from Tony winners Lee Adams and Albert Hague. He is survived by wife Mollie, four children and five grandchildren. - http://variety.com/2002/scene/people-news/milburn-d-smith-1117873207/
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Bloodsport Breakfast at Schlankenwald Flim Flam Sensations of the Bitten Partner Ten O'Clock Scholar, TheBloodsport
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pathological comedy
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Top of PageBreakfast at Schlankenwald
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1910. Conman Jeff hires Andrea to help him. She really takes to the life of crime and they go on a spree acroos several States. But is love the biggest con of them all?
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by Milburn Smith; Music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Lee Adams
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Top of PageSensations of the Bitten Partner
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Top of PageTen O'Clock Scholar, The
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Walker McCormick is a perennial graduate student (and college instructor) who has put off writing his Ph.D. thesis so many times that his no-longer-patient wife, Nell, has decided on divorce and a fresh start-this time with a real go-getter. Having become a computer programmer to support her unhurried husband, Nell is about to go off on a date with her very ambitious (and romantically inclined) young boss when a problem arises. She and Walker had agreed to rent their Long Island beach house for the summer, but neither had bothered to get it ready for the new tenant, and suddenly a deadline is at hand. the suggestion that Nell and Bob (her suitor) will spend the weekend housecleaning stirs Walker's latent jealousy, and he is soon racing out ahead of them in company with a curvaceous blonde named Evelyn Blue, a fellow member of the Anti-Digit-Dialing League (one of the many good causes with which Walker has involved himself to avoid working on his thesis). What happens next is a hilarious contest between her almost "ex" and possibly would-be husband, with the compliant Evelyn standing by to solace the loser. Somehow it all manages to sort itself out, and eventually Nell's burning desire for success and money gives way before Walker's suggestion that she join him in peaceful little East Wickham, Massachusetts, where he has decided to accept an offer to teach in the local high school. their turnabout leaves Bob and Evelyn to fend for themselves, but have no fear-it appears that they too were made for-or deserve-each other, as the case may be.
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written by Banci, Lewis And Smith, Milburn
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