Pay The Writer **
By: Samuel L. Leiter In case the title of Tawni O'Dell's dawdling new comedy-drama, Pay the Writer, at the Pershing Square Signature Center, makes you think it's related to the current writers' strike, think again. Instead, it's about a fictional African American novelist, Cyrus Holt (Ron Canada, Network), a Viet Nam vet, famous, financially successful, and highly regarded by the critical establishment (two Natio…