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The Difference between Warriors Dont Cry and Hairspray??

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Mark O'Donnell, the Tony winning writer behind "Hairspray" and "Cry-Baby," was found dead Monday morning in New York City. O'Donnell, 58, reportedly succumbed to cardiac arrest in the lobby of his Upper West Side apartment building. The AP reports an autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.

According to Jonathan Brown, a neighbor who says he bantered with O'Donnell less than a half hour before he collapsed, the writer was "a fixture" of the neighborhood for more than 20 years.

"He was a good guy," Brown told DNAInfo, the publication that broke the news of O'Donnell's death. "Never an unkind word -- at least one that wasn't in jest."

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest in a family of ten children, O'Donnell left home to attend Harvard University on scholarship. As an undergraduate, he became a member of the university's satirical paper, The Harvard Lampoon, and wrote and composed musicals for the Hasty Puddings Theatrical group.

O'Donnell is survived by his identical twin brother Steve. Both brothers attended Harvard and matched each other's professional achievements: Steve wrote for The Simpsons, Late Night With David Letterman (as head writer, he invented the show's now classic "Top Ten Lists" feature), and has held the position of head writer for The Jimmy Kimmel Show since its debut.

In a joint interview between the brothers on the Believer website, Mark compared their aligned talents to those of "the drab pair of twins" in the 1927 W.C. Fields film "Two Flaming Youths," in which Fields plays a circus sideshow barker. "One's the World’s Smallest Giant, and the other’s the World’s Tallest Midget. I’d like to think I’m an artsy writer who’s comic and you’re a comedy writer who’s artistic."