How do you remember Oscar Levant?

As the nebbishy, ivory-tinkling sidekick in An American in Paris? As a favorite wag on late-night talk shows and 1960s panel programs like What’s My Line? As tabloid fodder for mental illness and prescription drug dependency in a time when both subjects were spoken of only in hushed tones?

A more piquant question might be this: Do you remember Oscar Levant at all? Good Night, Oscar, the new biographical dramedy by Doug Wright, seems at once intimately familiar with and entirely alien to its subject….

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