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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Paddy_ChayefskyPaddy Chayefsky - Wikipedia

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   Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (/ ˌ tʃ aɪ ˈ (j) ɛ f s k i /; January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays.

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2011/05/22 › moviesPaddy Chayefsky’s Notes for ‘Network’ - Film - The New York Times

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   May 19, 2011 · In an apologetic letter addressed to “Walter,” and a similar letter to “John” — the recipients are presumably the network news anchors Cronkite and Chancellor — Chayefsky wrote, “I ...

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4. www.enotes.com › topics › paddy-chayefskyPaddy Chayefsky Criticism: John M. Clum - eNotes.com

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   Aug 6, 2024 · As a matter of fact, the basis of much of Chayefsky's dialogue in his three recent comedies is parody of the jargon of American institutions: the military expressions of bravery and honor; the...

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6. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2022Network Got It Right: The Legacy of a Scorching Satire

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   Mar 17, 2022 · The ostensible target of screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky’s excoriating 1976 satire was the monolithic broadcasters bastardizing the news in their rabid pursuit of ratings and market share, but it...

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   Feb 28, 2018 · But in the first part of the series, he examines the career of the man who was arguably the very first great writer for television, Paddy Chayefsky. Paddy Chayefsky was not a “Paddy” (as in, an Irishman) at all.

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8. collider.com › network-1976-movieThis Oscar-Winning Classic Is a Dark Satire of Manipulation ...

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   Aug 11, 2024 · Chayefsky and Lumet's brilliant satire in Network set the foundation for a long-lasting legacy in film and TV industry critiques.

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   Who was Paddy Chayefsky?

   • The screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) won an Academy Award for his jeremiad “Network” (1976), starring Faye Dunaway. United Artists LAMENTING the lack of “satirical clarity” in the screenplay he was laboring on in the early 1970s, Paddy Chayefsky was mad at himself and American television viewers at large.

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   Did Chayefsky have a dual personality?

   • In his biography Mad as Hell, author Shaun Considine says that Chayefsky had a "dual personality". Chayefsky's "Paddy" persona had "character, caprice; it appealed to his sense of swagger" and gave him confidence to stand up for his rights. "Sidney" was the "silent creator" who had the talent and genius.

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   How many Oscars did Paddy Chayefsky win?

   • "PADDY CHAYEFSKY DEAD AT 58; PLAYWRIGHT WON THREE OSCARS". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 July 2016. ^ a b Fisher, James (June 2011). Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930–2010. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-8108-5532-8. ^ Frank, Sam (1986). American Screenwriters: Second Series.

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   Did Chayefsky predict the future if he wrote 'network'?

   • The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Aaron Sorkin, who cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of “The Social Network,” wrote in an e-mail that “no predictor of the future — not even Orwell — has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ‘Network.’

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   Why did Chayefsky go to Hollywood?

   • Chayefsky went to Hollywood in 1947 with the aim of becoming a screenwriter. His friends Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon found him a job in the accounting office of Universal Pictures. He studied acting at the Actor's Lab and Kanin got him a bit part in the film A Double Life.

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   Was politics sacred to Chayefsky?

   • That no one or nothing in politics was sacred to Chayefsky—except the truth—is indicated by the fury with which Cronkite’s character vents at her Angela Davis–like captor (Marlene Warfield) for kvetching about her fees and distribution costs as a UBS star. Cronkite is the daughter of the late Walter Cronkite.

   Network Got It Right: The Legacy of a Scorching Satire

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10. www.theatlantic.com › magazine › archiveMadder Than Hell: How Network Anticipated Contemporary Media

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    Feb 20, 2014 · Was Paddy Chayefsky— not the subtlest of artists—the first to intuit that The Voice was going insane? That within its resonant and dominating timbres lurked a strain of increasing madness?