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| Born | 1938 (age 85–86) Vienna, Austria |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | theatre, film, fiction |
Tom Topor (born 1938) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Topor was born in Vienna, Austria, and he was brought to London in 1939, where he remained until he came to New York City in 1949.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College in 1961.
Topor is the author of the 1979 play Nuts and the screenplay for the 1987 film, which became a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film The Accused, which starred Jodie Foster. He won the Writers Guild of America Award for his screenplay for the 1990 television film Judgment, which he also directed. In 1996, he won the Dilys Award for his novel The Codicil.
Topor's works tend to involve courtroom drama, psychological drama, docudrama, melodrama, social problems, crime, and/or issues of sexual abuse.[2] Before his career as an author, he was a reporter for the New York Post, covering stories in police stations, courtrooms, hospitals, and psychiatric wards.[3] He also did some reporting for the New York Daily News and the New York Times.
His career as a playwright began in 1969 with a series of one-act plays staged Off-Off-Broadway. This culminated in a run of his play Nuts on Broadway from April 28, 1980 into August of that year. Anne Twomey, in the lead role, received a Tony Award nomination for her performance. The play was published in 1981, and was made into a film of the same name starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss in 1987, with Topor himself adapting it into a screenplay.
Topor's other plays include Answers, Romance: Here to Stay, But Not for Me, Coda (L'Orchestre des ombres in French), Up the Hill, and The Playpen. His other novels include Tightrope Minor and Bloodstar. His additional screenplays and teleplays include Word of Honor (co-writer) and Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (from the book by Lawrence Schiller).
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Miss tobias, my name is ben wainwright. Now, I know this isn't easy for you, So I'm going to ask you only a handful of questions. Now, you have testified that all the men present were strangers to you. And you also testified that while you were on the pinball machine, That you mostly kept your eyes closed. Is that right ? Your eyes were closed ? Yeah, sometimes. Is it fair to say you can't tell us who applauded... Or who shouted ? Is that fair ? Well, I don't-- is it possible that only one person shouted ? No. There were... Different voices. So at least two then. Could it have been only two ? No. They overlapped. Miss tobias, you testified that you were assaulted by three men. Is that right ? Yes. Okay. Is it possible-- And I'm just saying possible-- That the only ones who shouted were among your assaulters ? No. No. The voices were coming from further away. Okay. Miss tobias... You had had several drinks. You had smoked marijuana. <i>The tv was playing.</i> <i>The jukebox was playing.</i> You were in a room full of noisy video games and pinball machines. You, uh, had your eyes closed... Sometimes, <i>And you were</i> <i>being assaulted.</i> <i>Now,</i> <i>given these conditions,</i> <i>can you truly say...</i> How many voices you heard... And where those voices were coming from ? No. Is it fair to say, then, that you can't tell us... Who applauded or who shouted ? Is that fair ?
Notes
- ^ Roberts, Stanley, ed. The Best Short Plays (1972). p. 391.
- ^ Tom Topor at AllMovie
- ^ "Nuts." In The Films of Barbra Streisand, by Christopher Nickens and Karen Swenson. Citadel Press, 2001. p. 174.
External links
- Tom Topor at IMDb
- Tom Topor at the Internet Broadway Database
- Tom Topor in The Great American Playwrights on the Screen, by Jerry Roberts. (2003)
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