Albert 'Don' Buday

By VARIETY STAFF

Scribe and former Hollywood Reporter music critic Albert "Don" Buday, died Monday Nov. 26 of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home. He was 62.

The Detroit native moved to California in 1968, where he worked as a music critic at the Hollywood Reporter and then as a publicist for the Jay Bernstein Agency.

Buday turned to screenwriting in the early 1970s, penning films for producer Sam Sherman and the made-for-TV cult favorite "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Amusement Park."

An active WGA member, he went on to write several European features and at the time of his death was developing a project based on the early days of rock 'n' roll.

Buday is survived by his wife, Anne LeMay.