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Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573613319 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 108
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Two poker buddies, one a hyper-neurotic, the other an incurable slob, suddenly find themselves bachelors again and decide to share a New York City apartment.
Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573613319 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
Two poker buddies, one a hyper-neurotic, the other an incurable slob, suddenly find themselves bachelors again and decide to share a New York City apartment.
Author: Antje Schöne Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640179390 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 41
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Comedies, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "I am a creature controlled by some cruel fate that had twisted and warped my personality so that at the first sign of personal involvement, I became transformed from human being into the most feared and dangerous beast on earth, the observer-writer", says Neil Simon, calling himself "a monster who finds himself totally involved in situations, and then suddenly and without warning steps back to watch the proceeding". Some call Simon "Broadway's most successful playwright", others "in commercial terms, the most successful dramatist in the American theatre, and probably in the history of the world". Fact is, he has had dozens of plays produced and "has been showered with more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer". Born on July 4, 1927, Marvin Neil Simon grew up in Manhattan and shortly attended New York University and the University of Denver. His most significant job came in the early 1950s when he started writing for television comedy series. By the 1960s, Simon had begun to concentrate on writing plays for Broadway. His first hit was 'Come Blow Your Horn' in 1961. Throughout his career, Simon "has drawn extensively on his own life and experience for materials for his plays". The author's "milieu is middle-aged, middle class New York [, neighborhoods he knows well from when he was a child], and he builds much of his humor on the familiarity of that world to his audience". But Simon is probably best known for his characters Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar from his 1965 playwright 'The Odd Couple'. "Neil Simon's fabulously funny creation The Odd Couple started out in 1965 as a Broadway play, became a movie in 1968 and then was adapted for TV by ABC in 1970, remaining on screen for five years and more th
Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Concord Theatricals ISBN: 9780573608773 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 86
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Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501155008 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 672
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"Now, for the first time ever, Simon's complete life story is collected in one volume with a new introduction and afterword"--Dust jacket.
Author: Antje Schöne Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640177452 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 18
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Comedies, language: English, abstract: “I am a creature controlled by some cruel fate that had twisted and warped my personality so that at the first sign of personal involvement, I became transformed from human being into the most feared and dangerous beast on earth, the observer-writer”, says Neil Simon, calling himself “a monster who finds himself totally involved in situations, and then suddenly and without warning steps back to watch the proceeding”. Some call Simon “Broadway’s most successful playwright” , others “in commercial terms, the most successful dramatist in the American theatre, and probably in the history of the world”. Fact is, he has had dozens of plays produced and “has been showered with more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer”. Born on July 4, 1927, Marvin Neil Simon grew up in Manhattan and shortly attended New York University and the University of Denver. His most significant job came in the early 1950s when he started writing for television comedy series. By the 1960s, Simon had begun to concentrate on writing plays for Broadway. His first hit was ‘Come Blow Your Horn’ in 1961. Throughout his career, Simon “has drawn extensively on his own life and experience for materials for his plays”. The author’s “milieu is middle-aged, middle class New York [, neighborhoods he knows well from when he was a child], and he builds much of his humor on the familiarity of that world to his audience”. But Simon is probably best known for his characters Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar from his 1965 playwright ‘The Odd Couple’. “Neil Simon's fabulously funny creation The Odd Couple started out in 1965 as a Broadway play, became a movie in 1968 and then was adapted for TV by ABC in 1970, remaining on screen for five years and more than a hundred episodes” , as well as used for other derivative works and spin-offs. In his plays, above all in this play, Neil Simon delivers insight in the life of egocentric people and their struggle in society, “his characters are more or less well-meaning blunderers on dead-end roads” . It does not matter “ob es um Ehe, Freundschaft oder Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen geht, immer steht das Aufeinanderprallen gegensätzlicher Lebenseinstellungen zweier Menschen im Ringen um eine mögliche Form des Zusammenlebens im Mittelpunkt”
Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573614293 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 92
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"Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things cant seem to get any worse ... then hes robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and its the best thing that ever happened to him."--Back cover.
Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Concord Theatricals ISBN: 9780573614071 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 116
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A portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as Mother yells, "I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!"--Publisher's description.
Author: Neil Simon Publisher: LA Theatre Works ISBN: 9781580814119 Category : Man-woman relationships Languages : en Pages :
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A brand new lawyer and his young bride have returned from their honeymoon and are moving into their new high-rent apartment only to find that the place is absolutely bare of furniture, the paint job is all wrong, the skylight leaks, there is room for only one twin bed, and the wacky neighbors pop up at the worst times.
Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573650994 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 116
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This elegiac memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. The summer of 1953 brings romantic entanglements that coalesce one idyllic afternoon; Burt Hines, mid-50's and convalescing from a second heart attack, eagerly anticipates the arrival of the ex-wife he still loves. Daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to a Harvard law student and pines for his buddy Ray, an aspiring writer with whom she once had a brief fling. Clemma, the black housekeeper at the center of the action casts a astute eye on the complications while facing with her own unresolved past.
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Antje Schöne
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Antje Schöne
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Neil Simon
Author: Neil Simon