Markowitz’s Message
Someone at Calendar either has a peculiarly nasty sense of humor or has simply not been paying attention. Allowing Charles Markowitz to write about a playwright is like asking a skinhead to do a piece on the local rabbi (“When Reel and Real-Life Merge Into One Image,” April 2).
Markowitz has built a career by expressing his contempt for playwrights, assaulting script after script in exercises that resemble drive-by shootings more than productions.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. April 16, 1989 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Sunday April 16, 1989 Home Edition Calendar Page 99 Calendar Desk 2 inches; 42 words Type of Material: Correction
In early copies of the April 9 Calendar, David Link’s letter contained an incorrect article reference, the result of an editing error. Link’s letter was about Charles Marowitz, the author of an April 2 article on playwright Tom Stoppard, not about Robert Markowitz, who also had an article in the issue.
There may be legitimacy to this approach to theater, but it makes him a curious choice to do an article on any playwright, much less Tom Stoppard.
I wouldn’t ask The Times to protect playwrights (Lord knows that critic Dan Sullivan isn’t much help), but when a writer’s bias is so extreme as Markowitz’s, you’re only asking for incompetence; Markowitz delivers.
DAVID LINK
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