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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040912
Author:Jonathan Yardley
KAUFMAN & CO.
Broadway Comedies
By George S. Kaufman with Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Ring Lardner and Morrie Ryskind
Library of America. 911 pp. $35Like many uncommonly funny people, George S. Kaufman could be difficult, headstrong, irascible, arrogant and overbearing, yet he was the ultimate team player. If Ronald Reagan was the Great Communicator, Kaufman was the Great Collaborator. Over a show-business career that spanned more than four decades, he teamed up with various gifted writers to produce hugely popular Broadway plays and musicals, many of which were turned into hugely popular ...
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