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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
According to John Mellencamp, "Jack & Diane" was based on the 1962 Tennessee Williams film Sweet Bird of Youth. [8] He said of recording the song: "'Jack & Diane' was a terrible record to make. When I play it on guitar by myself, it sounds great; but I could never get the band to play along with me. That's why the arrangement's so weird.
"Quelque chose de Tennessee" ("Something from Tennessee") is a 1985 song recorded by French singer Johnny Hallyday. Written and produced by Michel Berger , it was released in December 1985 as the third single from the album Rock'n'Roll Attitude , on which it appears as the third track.
Williams was rewriting Battle of Angels by 1951. [6] When Orpheus Descending appeared in 1957, Williams wrote: "On the surface it was and still is the tale of a wild-spirited boy who wanders into a conventional community of the South and creates the commotion of a fox in a chicken coop. But beneath that now familiar surface it is a play about ...
Reggie Grimes Young Jr. (December 12, 1936 – January 17, 2019) [1] was an American musician who was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studio house band, The Memphis Boys, [2] and was a leading session musician.
However Williams did insist on a small role for actor Mike Stein, who Moonjean says was the original inspiration for the character of Chance (he played the police officer watching Heavenly). [ 10 ] The adaptation of the original play by Tennessee Williams went through several drafts, with Brooks unsure how to film the play's controversial ...
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In Masks Outrageous and Austere is the final full-length play of Tennessee Williams, written perhaps as early as 1970, but chiefly between 1978 and the fall of 1982.The play’s literary roots for characters and situations can be found in Williams’ 1945 short story "Tent Worms". [2]