LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Playwright and screenwriter Dale Wasserman has died of heart failure in Arizona, Variety.com reported Friday.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A big-screen adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1968 counterculture book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is in the works, The Hollywood Reporter said.

LOS ANGELES, June 11 (UPI) -- Writer Tom Wolfe's novel "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is being made into a feature film nearly 40 years after it was published. Director Gus Van Sant has signed on to do the project and has brought Lance Black aboard to adapt the screenplay, Variety.

LICHFIELD, England, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- British playwright Dale Wasserman saved the day for an amateur production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in Lichfield, England.

LONDON, July 31 (UPI) -- Chicken pox may keep Hollywood's Christian Slater from his British stage debut in the Edinburgh Festival's production of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest."

EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Novelist Ken Kesey, who wrote the 1962 trailblazer "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and later became a leading figure of the counterculture movement, died earl

EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Funeral arrangements were pending for writer Ken Kesey, who died early Saturday in Oregon. The 66-year-old author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" suffered