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Today is a story of January 28th
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It is the 28th day of the year, leaving 337 days remaining in 2023.
On this date in 1923, the author Paddy Chayefsky was born in New York City.
He told his stories about the lives of ordinary people, the kind you would pass on the street and not notice. He told of their loves, their lives, and their failures. He did so with natural dialogue, dramatic pathos, and literary realism.
His talent stretched across all the media available to him in the middle of the 20th Century -- radio dramas, Broadway performances, television mysteries, and movie screen adaptations. He also wrote a novel, Altered States: A Novel.
He won awards in several media, including three Oscars and a posthumous induction into the Television Hall of Fame.
Many of Chayefsky's ideas came from his early life in the Bronx, and some critics believe his pre-eminent work, the movie Network, portrays some of his own personality. The satirical view of the television industry include a news anchorman who rages during a climatic scene that he is "mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." Chayefsky was known for his volatile temper.
He began his career writing radio dramas for Theater Guild on the Air, in 1951. He soon switched to television, and was a premier writer during the "Golden Age of Television" in the mid-1950s. Among his scripts were Holiday Song and Marty.
Some of his TV scripts he later adapted into longer film productions, including Marty, which won four Academy Awards in 1955, including best picture, and a best adapted screenwriting nod for Chayefsky. He also wrote the movie scripts for As Young As You Feel, The Goddess, Paint Your Wagon, and The Hospital.
Chayefsky died in 1981.
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