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	Paddy Chayefsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood.
		Chayefsky's work on that and other teleplays inspired comparisons with Arthur Miller, and he received an Academy Award for his work on the screenplay.
		Paddy Chayefsky died in New York City of cancer in 1981 at the age of 58, and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky (444 words)

	Encyclopedia: Paddy Chayefsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He is known for his comments during the 1978 Oscar telecast after Vanessa Redgrave, when she went to accept her award for Best Supporting Actress in Julia, made a controversial speech denouncing extreme elements of Zionism.
		Chayefsky's stories were notable for their dialogue, their depiction of second-generation Americans, and their infusions of sentiment and humor.
		Chayefsky said that he focused on "the people I understand; the $75 to $125 a week kind"; this subject matter struck a sympathetic chord with the mainly urban, middle-class audiences of the time.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Paddy_Chayefsky (1410 words)

	Chayefsky, Paddy
		Sydney "Paddy" Chayefsky was one of the most renown dramatists to emerge from the "golden age" of American television.
		Chayefsky became one of television's best-known writers, along with such dramatists as Tad Mosel, Reginald Rose, and Rod Serling.
		Rod Steiger played the lonely butcher who felt that whatever women wanted in a man, "I ain't got it." When Marty finally met a woman, his friends cruelly labeled her "a dog." Marty finally decided that he was a dog himself and had to seize his chance for love.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/chayefskypa/chayefskypa.htm (847 words)

	Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: Paddy Chayefsky's Minyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PADDY CHAYEFSKY, it has been said many times, is the Clifford Odets of the 1950's, and the differences between the two playwrights largely reflect a shift in popular attitudes since the 30's....
		...Chayefsky's message of love has some of the tone of "positive thinking" and is part of the popular culture of psychology...
		...Chayefsky's theatrical world is the same Bronx evoked by Odets twenty-five years ago, and his fundamental note, too, is the pathos of the lower middle classes...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V28I6P69-1.htm (2718 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		This sort of sweeping cultural diagnosis would later become an integral part of Chayefsky's wrathful satires, but even in the 1950s the writer was prone to reflecting on the machinations of a blooming media culture in a manner at once practical, cynical and hopeful.
		Chayefsky would offer a similarly wide-eyed analysis of the market forces facing the makers of "art films" in his 1958 preface to the screenplay for The Goddess, a film in which he began to take on what he took to be the superficial vacuity—the fundamental unreality—of mass media culture.
		Chayefsky's point is clear: what he'd once hoped would be a vehicle for honest self-reflection, for sincerely portraying "small moments of life," has become a medium whose very existence depends on its insincerity, on saying the opposite of what it means, on preaching freedom when it projects enslavement.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/NovDec99/archive-paddy.html (2377 words)

	Videobot
		Chayefsky clearly saw the liberal idealism and radical protest of the '60s as a stillborn, middle-class indulgence, further compromised and domesticated through television's cannibalizing appetite for excitement.
		That sort of terse, up-front existentialism is rare in American cinema and Chayefsky hammers away mercilessly at it for the entirety of the film.
		Chayefsky's work still resonates strongly, but not because he nailed down television as a corrupt social institution that poisons the minds of viewers and personalities alike.
	www.metrotimes.com /movies/bot/18/06.html (818 words)

	Shaun Considine - Mad As Hell: The Life and Work of Paddy Chayefsky
		Chayefsky was mad indeed and in more than one sense Shaun Considine’s accomplished biography of the late Paddy Chayefsky allows us to see that the writer was both afflicted with and inspired by volcanic anger and a certain kind of lunacy.
		Considine, an admiring and compassionate biographer who hails Chayefsky as “a plenary artist,” depicts him as a man driven not only by genius but also by an ambition to redeem himself from the self-doubt and even self-loathing that plagues him through out his troubled life.
		Paddy, of course, gets most of the attention in Mad As Hell, but Considine’s book also serves as a star-studded and wholly absorbing history of the entertainment industry in New York and Los Angeles during a tumultuous but also fecund period.
	members.authorsguild.net /sconsidine/work1.htm (385 words)

	Altered States (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But the meeting between Russell and Chayefsky appears to have been a none-too harmonious one with Chayefsky, in resentment over Russell’s handling of his material, removing his name taken from the script and substituting his own given name.
		Unlike Chayefsky, Russell revels in the absurdity of the idea, playing the scientific treatises like monomaniacal soliloquies on fast-forward, with characters talking at the same time or spouting them around mouthfuls of food or bottles of wine.
		Chayefsky’s attachment to the seriousness of the project is difficult to understand - Russell only adds humour to a book that treated straight-faced would have been laughed off the screen.
	www.roogulator.esmartweb.com /sf/alteredstates.htm (571 words)

	Paddy Chayefsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sidney "Paddy" Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood.
		His last film was based on his novel Altered States, though on the film he was credited under his real first and middle name, Sidney Aaron, because of disputes with the director.
		Paddy Chayefsky died in New York City on August 1, 1981, of cancer.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paddy_chayefsky.html (717 words)

	Amazon.com: Hospital (1971) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is the 2nd of the three great movies Paddy Chayefsky wrote in the 60's and 70's, starting with The Americanization of Emily and ending with Network, that examined, among other things, personal responsibility and the dilemma of the individual within the demands and lunacy of institutions.
		Here Chayefsky takes on the bureaucratization and depersonalization of American medical care (pre the HMO era) and as always his insights and anger are pungent and on-target.
		I was a fan of Paddy Chayefsky's "Network" and at least that film had a little bit of light to compensate for the darkness.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302241111?v=glance (1790 words)

	REELINSIDER.COM - NETWORK (1976)
		Written by Paddy Chayefsky, the noted screen and TV writer who won a previous Academy Award for Marty in 1955, Network is directly concerned with the omnipresence of bad taste and declining values seemingly brought on by television or, at the very least, promoted within its household frame.
		Knowing himself to be a contributor to the Golden Age of Television, Chayefsky's main gripe against the three network broadcasting system seems to be the loss of human value in their objectification of experience for commercial purposes.
		It's yet another catch-22 but Chayefsky's satire is nothing more than the extension of circumstances he was observing in 1976 that have only come to be the standards by which we know television and movies today.
	www.reelinsider.com /network.html (1587 words)

	Paddy Chayefsky -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		U.S. playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky is best remembered for his early television plays, which were part of the flowering of television drama in the 1950s.
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	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9319400 (592 words)

	The Hospital (1971) - RUTHLESS REVIEWS
		The Hospital, Paddy Chayefsky's brilliant, powerful indictment of American life - under the guise of a hospital expose - is just the sort of film I live for because it believes that the words of cinema are sacred and deserve (demand) to be listened to in the same manner as a theatrical drama.
		Chayefsky, despite being a potent social critic, had deep reservations about the younger generation of his time and saw them as deluded, idealistic fools.
		Chayefsky states similar messages in Network -- fl power movements are profiteering sellouts, America is awash in loveless sex and shallow relationships, and religious fundamentalism is as natural to our culture as murderous violence.
	www.ruthlessreviews.com /movie/h/hospital.html (1039 words)

	The Screenplays of Paddy Chayefsky Volume 2 (Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Here Chayefsky satirizes a bevy of denizens in a large New York hospital complex and the activists of the surrounding neighborhood, making them all complicit in the killing of "God" who checked himself in as a patient.
		Chayefsky, with his reputation (he also won a screenwriting Oscar for MARTY), was able to secure an unheard-of contract for the movie: not a single line could be changed.
		Paddy Chayefsky's talent, passion and rage leap off every page.
	www.textkit.com /0_1557831947.html (567 words)

	Network comments - Sidney Lumet Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film, NETWORK, won critical praise, audience approval, and several nods from the Academy, so that should indicate to anyone that this film is beyond brilliant.
		In 1971, screenwriter veteran Paddy Chayefsky wrote the script for a brilliant satirical film, "The Hospital", which dealt with the bureaucracy and insanity of large-city health care.
		Five years after "The Hospital", Chayefsky wrote a similar satire of the television industry called "Network" which was, once again, a serious comment couched in the form of outrageous satire.
	www.mooviees.com /542/comments (1581 words)

	Paddy Chayefsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He eventually made a name for himself writing radio and teleplays, one of which became 1955's Marty a touching tale of a homely butcher and lonely schoolteacher that won Chayefsky his first Oscar.
		Chayefsky's last film was the Ken Russell extravaganza Altered States (1980).
		The director's decision to have the actors deliver Chayefsky's dialogue in breathless, rapid-fire manner so infuriated the author that he had his name withdrawn from the credits.
	www.movietreasures.com /main/Paddy_Chayefsky/paddy_chayefsky.html (159 words)

	Jim Hanas : Gadfly Magazine - Paddy Chayefsky -
		Late in the movie Network, Max Schumacher, a wizened television news executive, confronts Diana Christensen, the ratings rainmaker who has usurped both his position and his marital fidelity while turning the fictional UBS network into a sensational circus of mad prophets and fortunetellers.
		Chayefsky would offer a similarly wide-eyed analysis of the market forces facing the makers of “art films” in his 1958 preface to the screenplay for The Goddess, a film in which he began to take on what he took to be the superficial vacuity - the fundamental unreality - of mass media culture.
		Chayefsky’s brand of high-handed hyperbole would be perfected in George C. Scott’s bellowing tracts in the medical satire The Hospital and later in the messianic rantings of Howard Beale, Network’s “mad prophet of the airwaves.”
	www.pointlessart.com /education/loyalist/tv/wordsTV/Gadflyexerpts.html (2387 words)

	Welcome to The Los Angeles Jewish Theatre Website! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paddy Chayefsky was a widly funny man, but his humor sprang from an exasperated sense of the lunacy of life.
		Above all, Chayefsky was an experimenter willing to take incredible chances in the structuring of his plays mixing styles and genres within the same work.
		It is loosely based on that classic of the Yiddish theatre, THE DYBBUK, but with a philosophical conflict (as the old men of the temple prepare for the exorcism, Arthur pits the modern, rational materialsm against their faith.) The dybbuk is not presented here as an evil creature but as the embodiment of spiritual love.
	www.lajt.org /news/10man.htm (315 words)

	PADDY CHAYEFSKY Autograph
		This play was to be used for radio broadcast purposes for which Chayefsky would receive $750 in two installments - within ten days after delivery of the first draft and within ten days after the broadcast.
		Sidney "Paddy" Chayefsky (1923-1981) adapted plays for Theatre Guild on the Air from 1951-1952, when he began writing original mystery dramas for television.
		Chayefsky would also win Academy Awards for The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976).
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=177490 (296 words)

	FilmStew.com • HMS Celebrates Emmy Week With Network Screening
		The film marked Chayefsky's third Academy Award for best original screenplay, having previously won for Marty (1955) and The Hospital (1971), which HMS showcased in January.
		"Chayefsky was not only a brilliant writer," said Meyer," he's also one of the few with the clout to receive the kind of posessory credit ("Network by Paddy Chayefsky") normally only enjoyed by directors.
		Network's producer, Howard Gottfried, was Chayefsky's partner on several films and will discuss that collaboration with HMS series host Dennis Michael following the screening on tonight.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/DailyNews/Details.asp?ContentID=6755&Pg=1 (485 words)

	DBIS message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paddy Chayefsky was a man. So I believe you meant who was he.
		He was a writer probably best known for writing "Network" for which he won an Academy award for the screenplay.
		Chayefsky but he did make mention some time back, I believe, of an evening spent playing pool with the man that seemed to have left him with some lasting impression.
	www.dbinfosource.com /dbmb3/robboard.cgi.774.html (133 words)

	11610. Chayefsky, Paddy. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
		Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981), U.S. author, screenwriter, and Sidney Lumet.
		Diana Christenson (Faye Dunaway), Network, as she suggests further commercializing the network news broadcast (1976).
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	On the Decline of the New Hollywood and the Prescience of Network
		Lumet's direction and Paddy Chayefsky's script lambaste the ills of the modern world (couched within the fast-paced soliloquies delivered by the stellar cast of Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall and William Holden) and are oft times prescient, predicting the rise of 'reality television', and the subsequent decline of both production and social values.
		Chayefsky's script is simply much more ambitious, and verbose, than anything Hollywood offers up for contention these days.
		Kael savages Chayefsky's preachiness here and decries the tendency of the time towards “vindictive, moralizing condescension”, citing “Beale's denunciations of the illiterate public (Chayefsky apparently thinks that not reading is proof of soullessness).” (10) She continues to assert that television has not rendered people soulless, just as cinema did not, or the theatre.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/37/network.html (2675 words)

	Amazon.com: The Screenplays of Paddy Chayefsky Volume 2 (Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		by Paddy Chayefsky "PANORAMIC VIEW of The Hospital-a vast medical complex, a sprawling pastiche of architecture extending ten blocks north and south on First Avenue and east to..." (more)
		Applause Books has done an enormous service in compiling this set of Chayefsky's work, most of which has been long out of print.
		And the stage-play volume includes a poignant and informative foreword by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Chayefsky's friend for 22 years.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557831947?v=glance (1171 words)

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