Film and theater writer Harry Haun, 85, died on Feb. 2. Haun wrote for Playbill (he had “On the Aisle” and “Theatregoer’s Notebook” columns), the New York Daily News, the New York Observer, the Village Voice, and the New York Sun, among other publications; he also wrote The Movie Quote Book and The Cinematic Century: An Intimate Diary of America’s Affair with the Movies. Haun told interviewer Suzanna Bowling, “What I’ve done I have loved. I have gone to Broadway and Off Broadway opening nights for 20 to 30 years. It’s like angel food cake. I still adore it, but it is different. It’s the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York. It as close to heaven as I’m ever going to get.” Jane Klain of the Paley Center says that “Harry was a very graceful writer and so thorough and accurate in his writing.”
