Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist Budd Schulberg died Wednesday after falling ill at his home in Long Island, N.Y., his wife said.

U.S. actor Karl Malden, winner of both Academy and Emmy awards, died Wednesday in California at age 97, family members said. Malden's family informed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences of the veteran actor's death, KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, reported.

IN CONNECTION with the forthcoming stage version, you reported the views of the elderly Budd Schulberg on his screenplay for On the Waterfront, about the stevedore who informs on his crooked dockland bosses (August 2).

By PHIL MILLER ARTS CORRESPONDENT BUDD Schulberg, the Hollywood screenwriter who wrote On the Waterfront, said yesterday that the accepted interpretation of his masterpiece is wrong.

By Tim Cornwell's Diary THE screenwriter Budd Schulberg made his name in 1941 with his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? The story of a venal Hollywood screenwriter, it was named best first novel of the year by US critics, but Schulberg later said that he quit the Communist Party after local bosses tried to direct his writing.