RIP Tom Stoppard

[garrow]

Genius

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

 

[waterytart]

My first exposure to Stoppard was The Real Inspector Hound in college. The efficiency of the exposition cracked me up, and then it just got better. A genius who could work with Big Ideas and slapstick simultaneously.

RIP

 

[No Phonies]

I love Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. And the movie is a delight.

 

[OscarMadison]

Pouring a forty for a life well-lived. My shelves are peppered with his books as a reminder of what the English language is capable of doing. He was the original spy in the house of letters.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

My favorite nugget about Stoppard: He did a rewrite of the script for Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade under the pen name Barry Waston.

Many of the best bits in the film came from him.

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