Last week, we lost both Budd Schulberg and John Hughes.
One was 95 and died of natural causes; the other was 59 and suffered a heart attack while walking in New York.
One was an Oscar winner who worked with the likes of Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan. The other was a social commentator who specialized in suburban high school settings.
What they had in common: both wrote uncommonly good female roles. Schulberg made Patricia O'Neal almost too savvy as one of Andy Griffith's handlers/romances in A Face in the Crowd. Eve Marie Saint was more traditionally ingenue-ish in On the Waterfront, but she was still allowed a brain. And won an Oscar.
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