Love him or hate him, you may gain some respect for former President George W. Klores said, looks at the lessons McAlary learned from the choices he made, because “he chose to follow the story.” Previews begin Aug. “Does he go for his chemotherapy under the illusion, or the battle, either way you want to look at it, to help save his life? Or does he follow the pursuit in his heart?” The play, Mr. Klores takes some creative license in his play, he said, but the central question is ripped directly from his subject’s life: “He’s on his way to chemotherapy, and he gets a tip about something bad that happened in Brooklyn,” Mr. Now the playwright Dan Klores is telling McAlary’s story in “The Wood,” a new play that begins performances this week at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Both the Louima matter and McAlary’s own tale (which included a car crash in 1993 that put him in a coma and a scandal in 1995, when he used bad intelligence to cast doubt on a rape victim’s account) surely have the makings of drama. McAlary’s series of Daily News articles on the Louima case won him that Pulitzer. That was in the summer of 1997, when he instead went to meet Abner Louima, who had been brutalized by police officers in Brooklyn. He once skipped a chemotherapy appointment to chase a hot tip. When MIKE McALARY died of colon cancer in 1998, at 41, he left in his wake a Pulitzer Prize and a reputation for tenacity.
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