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Friendly Rivals. On the great marshy peninsula of Médoc, the celebrated vines that grow over 200 chalky acres of Château Lafite-Rothschild produce a grand cru that is the pride of Guy, Elie, Alain and Edmond. Next door, at his Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe wages a battle for oenological equality with his fond cousins and competitors, trying to persuade the French government's wine agency to revise its official 1855 wine classification, which listed Mouton slightly below Lafite. Philippe has commissioned, among others, Cocteau, Braque, Dali and Lippold to design labels...
Knit Fireworks. In his private person, Simon is shy, quiet and inconspicuous. But Walter Mitty would be jealous. He is the man who listens unnoticed as the professional party clowns laugh it up, then-in a momentary gap in the uproar-drops a quiet line that tops them all. "Doc" Simon, as he has been called since he used to compete with physicians in their attempts to diagnose family sicknesses, has been writing jokes since he was in his teens. His father was a dress salesman, and the Simons lived in an apartment in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan...
Eventually they made enough money to move away from home, precipitating the family fireworks that exploded on Broadway and the screen as Come Blow Your Horn. "Of the two of us, Doc was always the shy one," remembers Danny. "But the lines were always there whenever we went into a room to write, although everybody always suspected that I was bringing him along for charity. I used to have to swear that Doc was funny...
...Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, Neil and Danny Simon wrote a revue each week for two seasons, and for the first time reveled in the feel of live audiences. Danny soon took off for Hollywood. But Doc stayed behind, bitten by those immediate theatrical laughs. Too security-minded to abandon TV, he went on writing for it-some 40 episodes of Sergeant Bilko, a year and a half with Garry Moore. But he used his nights and weekends to write Come Blow Your Horn. Then, with $250,000 rolling in from Hollywood for the movie rights to Blow Your Horn...
Simon's ambitions remain modest. "He tries to focus only on the smaller problems of the people he knows," says his brother. "That's why people love the people in his plays. They are always done with love and sympathy. Doc never gets mad at anything...