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When Neil Simon's 23rd play, Broadway Bound, opened in New York City last week, TIME Theater Critic William A. Henry III judged it the best American play of the 1980s. He happily proclaims that news in his cover profile of the playwright, which was written with reports from Los Angeles Correspondent Elaine Dutka. Says Henry: "There is a saying in the theater that there's nothing wrong with Broadway three hits won't cure. In any season that Neil Simon brings out a play, the problem is one-third solved...
...never managed to get on the plane in Tokyo. Taipei had warned all Taiwan-bound airlines not to accept any passenger without proper entry documents. Two days later he used a false name to get on a flight from Manila, but Taipei had been tipped off, and he was forced to return on the same plane...
...Ocean Breeze, requests for a castle and a space station were approved, but grownups nixed a plea for a haunted house lest it attract graffiti. After the diagrams were drawn up, community leaders received from Leathers' firm spiral-bound manuals detailing exactly what lumber and tools were needed. Some critics have voiced concern about the safety of volunteer-built playgrounds, but Leathers insists only the best materials are used and the workers are strictly supervised. "One thing we have learned is that we can't cut corners," says Leathers. "Playgrounds have to be tough because kids put them through such...
Neil Simon not only wrote that scene at the heart of his new play, Broadway Bound, which opened on Broadway last week, he also lived its essence. Sometimes when his mother told the story, her partner was George Raft, sometimes it was George Burns. "I heard it twisted around so many ways," he says. "It could have been Rudolph Valentino." Nonetheless, the poignant sweetness of her recollections and the faintly acrid aftertaste of his own uneasy detachment flavored Simon's adolescence. As he rose during adulthood from deprivation to celebrity, creating hit TV shows, then dozens of gag-laden Broadway...
...didn't have a wider political significance, the murder of McCord, Jr., cut the bottom out of his father's life. The hard man's instinct was for revenge, but McCord's ex-wife and his two surviving sons extracted a promise that he would stay within the law. Bound by that commitment, he used his head, channeling his rage into a determination to bring the killers to justice...