Sir Tom Stoppard died on Saturday. He was 88.
I knew him “from around,” “around” being Le Caprice, London’s chicest show-business restaurant; and through my friend Mike Nichols, who directed Tom’s The Real Thing on Broadway from 1984 to 1985.
David Mamet: Tom Stoppard and Me
Playwright Tom Stoppard is seen at home with his first wife, Josie Ingle, on March 11, 1967. (Erich Auerbach via Getty Images)
The legendary playwright was a Holocaust survivor and an immigrant, but he wrote the most English and Anglophile of works.
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