Talk:Art Buchwald

Trivia

In the movie The Philadelphia Story (1940), Art Buchwald's name appears prominetly in the byline in the close-up of a newspaper article, although he was only fifteen years old at the time. - John Doyle

I believe that you are confusing that with the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film, "To Catch a Thief". In a brief scene early on in the film, there is a shot of a newspaper article in the International Herald Tribune which shows Art Buchwald's column, "Europe's Lighter Side", and Buchwald's byline.CrashRiley 02:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Picture request

Can we get a picture of this person? --Capsela 19:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Dialysis

I changed nine hours of dialysis a day to five hours a day, which is correct according to this article: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002115616, but according to Art in his interview with Diane Rehm, he would have to be on dialysis three times a week for nine-and-a-half hours a shot. I would consider the article to be more realiable, but perhaps it is not. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.240.202.210 (talk • contribs) 22:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Family

He has children. I'm guessing there was a wife in there somewhere.Eeksypeeksy 16:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

(Jan. 18, 2007) Here's the Washington Post obituary which says among other things that his three children were adopted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011800616.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by IvyGold (talk • contribs) 16:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Update request

November 2006, is he still living, how is he doing? Doc —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.12.137.135 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

He was interviewed last week on the Diane Rehm show, so he wasn't dead yet. He didn't sound great, but considering . . . http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/06/11/22.php#12247

Joe

64.50.40.130 03:09, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Interview

Retirement Living Television interviewed him last Fall. It is on their website - http://rl.tv —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.111.82.98 (talk • contribs) 18:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism

This sentance appears verbatim in both this article and an article from the Tribune Media Services, Inc:

"The column in which Buchwald explains Thanksgiving Day to the French people in 1953 is reprinted every year in late November with ceremonial regularity."

It seems that user 68.66.101.7 added this sentance on May 19, 2005. It's not entirely clear who is plagiarising who - the Tribune Media article gives Jan 18,2007 as the date in the header, but as the article doesn't talk about his death, I believe that this is the access date and not the date that the article is written. I don't have the time today to investigate this further, someone else should if they like to. J. Tyler 19:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

what were his opinions/idiologies?

For a political columnist, this article has too little information on what exactly his opinions were. Academic Challenger 22:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion, Art Buchwald wasn't so much a political columnist as he was a satirist and social commentator. For Art Buchwald, anyone in the political arena was fair game, though it would appear, based upon his documented friendships with such Democratic luminaries as Ethel Kennedy (Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy) and longtime Motion Picture Association of America Chairman (and former aide to President Lyndon Johnson) Jack Valenti, and left-leaning newspaper people such as the Washington Post's Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee, that it wouldn't be unfair to Buchwald to categorize him as a liberal Democrat. Again, this is only my opinion, there may be other evidence to the contrary. CrashRiley 03:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Important Links

The following links to content on WashingtonPost.com from January 18th, 2007 contain a wealth of information about Art Buchwald, including photos, audio interviews, and other biographical information:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011800616.html Washington Post obituary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011801062.html Appreciation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/01/18/DI2007011800697.html Ben Bradlee online chat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/01/18/DI2007011800918.html Jennifer Buchwald, "A daughter remembers".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/audio/2007/01/17/AU2007011701750.html Washington Post radio December 15, 2006 (11min, 35 sec)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/audio/2007/01/18/AU2007011801547.html Vice President at-Large Benjamin C. Bradlee and CBS News' Mike Wallace talk about their friend Art Buchwald. January 18, 2007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/galleries/011807/artbuchwald/index.html Art Buchwald in photos.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032501829.html Links to some of Art Buchwald's last columns. CrashRiley 04:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)