Fans of HBO's "Bored To Death" were devastated when the premium cable network canceled the writer-turned-private-detective comedy after three seasons in 2011.
Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross headline Noël Coward's 1930 comedy, "Private Lives," at the Music Box (Nov. 6).
Stuart's rationalizations escalate as he becomes more aware of his private plight; the comedy prickles.
Wilson is also attached to a remake of the Goldie Hawn comedy Private Benjamin.
Success wasn't to follow, however, until his breakout role in 1986's Platoon, meaning Depp had to pay his creative dues by agreeing to star in low-budgeted sex comedy Private Resort.
Yet Mr. Safdie, who featured the same character in his 2003 comedy "Private Jokes, Public Places," is better at mapping out a debate than at creating three-dimensional people or a surprising plot.
Yet beyond its shock value, the show is also a bizarre television landmark, willfully erasing all boundaries between narcissism and art, black humor and gross-out comedy, private and public lives, good taste and bad.
He also garnered accolades for his film portrayals of a sociopathic thug in Brighton Rock (1947); a soldier in the comedy Private's Progress (1956) and its sequel, I'm All Right Jack (1959); and a squadron leader engineering a breakout from a German POW camp in The Great Escape (1963).
The lot was closed, and being on a movie lot at night was very romantic, like 'Sunset Boulevard.' " The pair, along with Harvey Miller, wrote the script to "Private Benjamin," the comedy that starred Goldie Hawn, then at the apex of her career, as a pop-eyed suburban princess who joins the Army after her second husband dies midcoitus.
A case in point is the Vagabond Players' season-closing production of the vintage Noel Coward comedy "Private Lives".
