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The following is an excerpt from a Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook written by Marshall Brickman in response to quotes from an interview with Des McAnnuff which stated, “When writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice approached McAnuff with the idea for ‘Jersey Boys,’ there was no script, just the idea. ‘I helped them with the structure.’”

BRICKMAN’S RESPONSE:

“We can finally put to rest any lingering doubts about who is responsible for the success of our little offering, “Jersey Boys…” It is, of course, the director.

…Twice we offered him the crown and twice he refused it… Sheer modesty. We offered it to him 139 times. Only after we doused ourselves with gasoline and lit a match did he agree to interrupt his restructuring of the book for “Dracula, the Musical,” to heed our pleas and, as a bonus, instruct us in the... (more)

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“The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere... (more)

“The Church has 2,414 Canon Laws, and I never met one I liked …. I found the God epitomised in these laws to be harsh, legalistic and only reluctantly forgiving … The Code’s God is the antithesis of the God whom Jesus presented to us as our Father.”

After spending twenty years as a Roman Catholic Priest, William Kienzle left the church in 1974, largely because the diocese refused to marry divorcees.

He subsequently married a copy-editor to whom he’d announced his love a year before he left the priesthood (but he insisted this wasn’t the reason he left). He then found a job as editor of MPLS magazine in Minneapolis, most of which he and his wife had to write themselves, often using the pen-names Mark Boyle and Fiona Lowther.

After two-and-a-half years he moved to Kalamazoo to become Assistant Director of the Center for Contemplative Studies, run by the Trappists, which was subsequently moved, lock, stock and barrel, to the University of Dallas in... (more)