In September 1979, CBS Television aired a made-for-television movie about the life and death of comedian Freddie Prinze entitled "Can You Hear The Laughter?" based on Peter Greenberg's acclaimed Playboy Magazine article "Goodnight, Sweet Prinze" from June 1977. Although a factual by-the-numbers biographical retelling of his life and death, the film was not well received by critics for refusing to probe beyond the superficial surface of events, a task which the Oscar-nominated screenplay of "Fame" undertook with a much greater depth of exploration and social commentary through the central fictional portrait of the "Ralph Garcy" character and Barry Miller's highly acclaimed performance, especially in terms of the tremendous psychological burden that occurs through the journey of a youthfully naive and gifted individual's desperate escape from the violence and poverty of their ghetto childhood into the often morally compromised and empty materialism of Hollywood success.

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