Sad to hear of the passing of one of my favorite writers, Bruce Jay Friedman. Obits like this one celebrate him for his screenplays and novels, and they're wonderful, but I think of his as one of our great playwrights. In my library, I have all my Bruce Jay Friedman books with the plays, not the movie books or novels. He had a dark, irresistible sense of humor.
I never got to meet the man. I know one of his sons — the fine caricaturist Drew Friedman — but I never got to meet Bruce Jay and I'm sorry. I would have liked to tell him how much his work has meant to me. I hope he's enjoying his time in the steambath right about now.