Tom Stoppard: British playwright, who won Academy Award for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88

LONDON — British playwright Tom Stoppard, the funnyman and detective playwright who won an Oscar for his screenplay for the 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love,” has died. He was 88. United Agents said in a statement on Saturday that Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset, southern England, surrounded by his family. They said: … Read more