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He made his directorial debut in 2016, overseeing a production of Clifford Odets’s boxing play “Golden Boy” that was staged at a New York gym with actors also afflicted by Parkinson’s.

At 20, he directed an Off Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’s drama “The Big Knife.”

This isn’t Clifford Odets or Norman Mailer, but an epic adventure of possibility and positivity.

Shot in velvety black and white amid a midtown Manhattan that’s both sleazy and sophisticated, “Sweet Smell of Success” has earned a small but devoted following, mostly for Clifford Odets’s compulsively quotable dialogue.

The other subsidized his good friend, playwright-director Clifford Odets, until the end of Odets’ days.