(MENAFN-Khaleej Times) The prize is being funded by gossip magazine The National Enquirer and its publisher, American Media Inc, which falsely reported that Hoffman had a gay affair with a friend
AN ANNUAL PRIZE will award $45,000 to a playwright in honour of Oscar-winning American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died this month from a suspected heroin overdose.
The prize is being funded by gossip magazine The National Enquirer and its publisher, American Media Inc, which falsely reported that Hoffman had a gay affair with a friend.
The friend, David Katz, came up with the idea after settling a libel case over the article, his lawyer Judd Bernstein said.
The newly created American Playwriting Foundation is likely to award the first prize for an unproduced play this year, he said.
The New York Times, which broke the story, said the prize would be called the Relentless Award, in Hoffman’s honour.
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