Jay, my wife thanks you for your concern and she is coping well...aside from wandering around the house like a deer in headlights, continually hugging me (intimations of one's own mortality, I suspect), and is now going off to see her own therapist...She also has to go back to the office today to sort out her schedule and when she might get back in, etc. and is dreading that.
For those of you who don't know, about fifteen-twenty minutes after my wife left for work (she's a therapist in Encino), her building manager called here and left a message to tell her not to bother, since there had been a shooting in the building and everything was cordoned off.
As it was, she arrived about fifteen minutes after events had transpired. She had been a little late. Had she been on schedule, she would have been there when it happened. The "it" was that in the office next door to her (they share a common paper-thin wall), a couple were in therapy when the man pulled out a gun and shot his wife and then shot himself. Both died. The therapist escaped. Jay noticed that Julieanne was quoted in the LA Times today.
Other matters: Bruce, Frank Levy was the person I dealt with on my play. We also tried to set up a remake of THE UNINVITED. It didn't happen. (I later wrote one for Raffaella DeLaurentiis...it never got done, though I was paid handsomely). Frank, I think, was a little afraid of me after I wouldn't give Catalina the free option on THE EBONY APE. But he called me years later,and wanted to know if we were still okay and if I'd be interested in doing a remake of the play CHILD'S PLAY for TV. I couldn't quite see it. But I always liked Frank, thought him smart, and you're right, he died too young.
The Katherina in the Marc Singer/ACT TAMING OF THE SHREW was Fredi Olster. She was just fine...as was everyone. A lovely production. It's available in the Broadway Theatre Archive series.