On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important American storytellers of the last 50 years.
But there’s a touch of irony to that Hollywood setting because in his daily life, the late Wilson wasn’t much of movie guy.
“We did love to sit back on our couch and watch thrillers sometimes and, of course, he especially liked Meryl Streep,” remembers Constanza Romero, Wilson’s widow and the executor of his estate. “He really liked a lot of the earlier movies by Black
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