son relationship with "Tycoon" screenwriter  Harold Pinter (qv), the great playwright. Spiegel was quite taken  with Pinters genius, so much so it hurt the film adaptation of  _Last Tycoon, The (1976) , wrote "Tycoon" director Kazan in his own  autobiography, as Spiegel treated the screenplay as sacrosanct and  wouldnt let Kazan change it to create more dramatic tension.  Ironically, when Spiegel had first seen a screenplay written by  Pinter in the 1960s (_Servant, The (1963)_ (qv), he had been  appalled by its lack of professionalism.