Paddy Chayefsky
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967.
Description
The Latent Heterosexual is a play published in 1967 and performed in 1968, tells of a successful homosexual author who marries for tax purposes and finds he enjoys it. The play is a satire on corporations, business laws, taxes, trust funds, shares, debentures, and how one man allows himself to turn into a corporation
4) Marty
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a girl with similar fears.
Pub. Date
[1980]
Description
Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states ... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing.
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Research scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) believes other states of consciousness are as real as everyday reality. Using sensory deprivation, then adding powerful hallucinogenic drugs, he explores these altered states ... and endures experiences that make madness seem a blessing.
7) Network
Description
A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."
8) Network
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."
Pub. Date
2004
Description
John Hodges works a hand press at a ACME Printing Company and is forced to retire when he turns sixty-five. When it is discovered that no one at the company knows the parent company's president, John decides to dye his hair and mustache, and gives a convincing impersonation to the executive officers to ignore the mandatory retirement clause. John soon finds himself giving a creditable speech on the dignity of man and gaining national attention to...