In December, Broadway luxuriated in a muscular revival of "Golden Boy," a pivotal 1937 period piece that brought Clifford Odets his first uneasy fame and fortune as a New York playwright with a conscience. Three years later, Odets went Hollywood and, by the time he wrote "The Big Knife" in 1949, he was both seduced and self-disgusted by his cushy, spirit-crushing life in the studio system.
SOURCE: Newsday at 06:03PM on April 15, 2013