Wednesday, March 04, 2009

R.I.P. Horton Foote

I see at NPR that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-winning writer Horton Foote has died. They report:
Foote was 92. Foote died in his apartment in Hartford where he was preparing work on a production for next fall at the nonprofit theater.
He wrote the screenplays for To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trip to Bountiful, and Tender Mercies, jewels all three.

NPR
has an audio interview with him.

obits:
The New York Times said he
chronicled America’s wistful odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas and left a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers

IFC
CNN
EW
Austin360 calls him a "Texas legend".
Edward Copeland on Film
GreenCineDaily
The Independent

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