Wrote 'Henry & June,' 'Wanderers'

ROSE KAUFMAN - 1939-2009

On a sunny day in 1958, Rose Kaufman met her future husband Philip on Chicago's Midway Plaisance. She was sunbathing, engrossed in a book. He was walking with a friend and couldn't take his eyes off her.

"Being a really cool guy, I asked if we could watch her sunbathe," Kaufman recalled. She replied in the negative. "We sort of slinked off. But two blocks later I doubled back. I had to get to know her."

That "meet cute" would develop into a 51-year marriage and a unique collaboration in the film business -- she as an accomplished screenwriter ("The Wanderers," "Henry & June"); he as a writer and director ("The Unbearable Lightness of …