LOS ANGELES: Wendy Riss Gatsiounis was a struggling playwright working a temp job in New York City in 1991 when she got what she hoped would be her big break.
Her play ”A Darker Purpose” had been given a staged reading at the Public Theater, and she had scheduled a meeting with Dustin Hoffman and ”Tootsie” screenwriter Murray Schisgal to discuss adapting it into a feature film for Hoffman to star in. ”It was a huge thing,” she told Variety.
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