PAUL RUDNICK is a essayist, novelist, and playwright. His latest play on off-Broadway is a comedy about AIDS, "Jeffrey," about a man who swears off love and sex. Frank Rich of The New York Times writes, "Instead of writing about the bleak absurdity of meaningless death, Mr. Rudnick. . . focuses on the far more manic, at times bizarrely festive absurdity of those who survive." RUDNICK also wrote the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet," about John Barrymore's ghost. And he writes a column in "Premiere, "If You Ask Me," in which he writes in the voice of a quintessential Jewish mother who critiques movie stars' personal lives more than their acting.
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