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JIMMY Breslin, playwright? The legendary newspaperman has penned a drama, "Love Lasts on Myrtle Avenue," which will get a reading tomorrow at the Actors Studio by Estelle Parsons and Rip Torn, "so it is hardly an amateur affair," says Breslin. Lee Grant is the director. If the play makes it to Broadway, it will be "the first done by a newsman in New York since Tom Topor sat on The Post rewrite desk and wrote 'Nuts.' It was great on the stage. Streisand was spectacular in the movie," said Breslin, who wrote the drama in 13 weeks after Newsday freed him from writing his column. He said it's about "a guy who goes to work at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and doesn't come back. His wife won't accept the money. He wakes up six months later on a fishing boat in New Jersey."
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