Playbill
June, 1977
The sudden death of a rising young talent always evokes a particularly stunning kind of sadness. It was so with James Dean in the Fifties; with Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison in the early Seventies; and in the recent suicide of comedian Freddie Prinze. Perhaps because he was a comic, we assumed his private life was full of fun and humor. We know now that was not the case. This month, in a profile based on talks with Prinze's family and friends and some interviews with him before his death, Peter G...
