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...McCay did some marketing of the Nemo brand (sandals) and in 1908 put the boy on Broadway, in a spectacle with music by Victor Herbert. But the strip didn't achieve great popularity; it was not syndicated nationally, running only in the New York Herald, then in the New York American. Decades would pass before a new generation of connoisseurs saw the art in Little Nemo. (Original pages can sell for $30,000 today.) The fish with the same name in the 2003 Pixar film is surely a tribute to McCay's pioneering lushness of imagination and precision of design...
...audiences who come to the theater for feeling rather than anesthesia, for honesty rather than comfort, Broadway Bound should firmly establish Simon's standing in the top rank of American playwrights. He does not attempt to do what Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard have done: create their own worlds and mesmerize viewers into them. Simon evokes a world very much like the viewers' own and entices them into confronting their own feelings. Broadway Bound is the work of a master craftsman, at once literary and heartfelt, shaped with becoming modesty. It is unmistakably urban and Jewish...
...gone out to Los Angeles to write My Three Sons for twelve years." Instead, success followed success: Barefoot in the Park (1963), an evocation of newlywed days; The Odd Couple (1965), based on an experience of Danny's; Sweet Charity (1966), a Bob Fosse musical now enjoying a Broadway revival; Plaza Suite (1968), a trio of bittersweet one acts set in the same hotel room; Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969), a hilarious yet pathetic picture of a man attempting infidelities during a mid-life-crisis...
...gone through a moody period of late, one that has made him willing to talk about his worries and insecurity in conversation and not just through his work?a pursuit that was always his "refuge" but is now satisfying him less. He says, "I wasn't feeling happy during Broadway Bound. Eugene and Stanley are shown when life is just beginning. I can't get back to that place. I would never think of giving up my career, but it's just not the same as when I began to achieve what I wanted." He concedes that his "gloom...
...rights to The Odd Couple to Paramount when it made the movie, on the presumption that it would never become a series?a bad guess that Simon says may have cost him as much as $20 million. Later on he bought the Eugene O'Neill Theater on Broadway as a home for his plays. That had the unexpected result of making him the employer of his mother: she came to work on the box-office telephone ("Some mothers give you their milk, others sell tickets to Promises, Promises"). He later sold the theater?he has no ownership interest...