REMEMBERING MERRICK

Producer David Merrick, who died this week, was a producer to be reckoned with.  “Merrick is the Bermuda Triangle in a Brooks Brothers suit. He lures writers and playwrights in like naval air squadrons, never to be seen or heard from again,” said the writer and comic Stan Freberg, a survivor of a Merrick flirtation with one of his plays. – Washington Post