Transcript: Theater World Celebrates William Gibson's 80th Birthday

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November 13, 1994
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LIANE HANSEN, Host: Playwright William Gibson is 80 years old today. He's best known for his Tony-award-winning play, The Miracle Worker. His subsequent works had moderate success, but six years ago he left the theater for good, and remains ambivalent about his experience there. Gibson now lives in western Massachusetts, where he's writing a novel. Charlene Scott of member station WFCR in Amherst prepared our birthday profile.

CHARLENE SCOTT, Reporter, WFCR: William Gibson says he was 26 years old when he realized that he had spent the previous five years writing poems and earning only $100. His agent told him theater was where the money was, but ...

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