Edward Graczyk Dead: 'Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean' Playwright Was 84

Edward Graczyk Dead: 'Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean' Playwright Was 84

Edward Graczyk, best known for Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the 1982 Broadway play and film adaptation both directed by Robert Altman, died in Sidney, Ohio, on February 11 following a lengthy illness. He was 84. His death was announced Monday by his agent. Born in Pennsylvania in 1941, Graczyk had written several children’s plays early in his career when, in the mid-1970s, he drove through Marfa, Texas, the small t…