Michael Hickey, originally of Manhasset, New York

Manhasset, New York

Manhasset is a hamlet and neighborhood in Nassau County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the population was 8,080....

, is a screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 best known for writing the screenplay for the horror film Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 slasher film produced by Ira R Barmak, directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr. and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach, and Leo Geter...

. Hickey's controversial screenplay for the film focused on a serial killer

Serial killer

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 who, disguised as Santa Claus

Santa Claus

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, takes the lyric "He knows if you've been bad or good so be good, for goodness sake" rather too literally.

Hickey also authored the stage play Murrow about the life of newscaster Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow

Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...

, which premiered at the Bristol Riverside Theater in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Bucks County, Pennsylvania

- Industry and commerce :The boroughs of Bristol and Morrisville were prominent industrial centers along the Northeast Corridor during World War II. Suburban development accelerated in Lower Bucks in the 1950s with the opening of Levittown, Pennsylvania, the second such "Levittown" designed by...

. The play appeared in New York under the title A Question of Loyalty in 1998. Hickey lives in Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs, California

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