Irwin Shaw
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"Irwin Shaw" was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for his novels The Young Lions (1948) about the fate of three soldiers during World War II that was made into The Young Lions (film)/a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970) about the fate of three siblings after World War II that was made into a popular miniseries starring Nick Nolte. Though Shaw's work received widespread critical acclaim, the success of his commercial fiction ultimately diminished his literary reputation.

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That, I think, is when things really took off, ... More and more people were buying the passes.

You go to the multiplex and you don't see anyone you know, ... invariably you see someone you know. It's like old home week.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

The idea behind that was to encourage regular attendance.

A lot of people have neat memories of here that add to the enjoyment of what they're coming to see.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

They do an excellent job, ... They really care about it and look into it.