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...northern end of Manhattan. The family never had much money, he says. "There were definite class distinctions depending on where you lived. People next to the park who got a breeze in summer were considered wealthy. All of our rooms faced walls or the backs of houses." Simon's father Irving, like the father in the trilogy, worked in the garment industry. Recalls Simon: "Like Willy Loman, he learned to ingratiate himself with his customers. He wasn't a particularly bright man and had only a grade-school education. I remember him as being a great laugher, a great audience...
...chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Edwin Gray once chartered a plane to see his dying father when no commercial flights were available. Cost: nearly $14,000. His wife Monique spent close to $12,000 on air travel, hotel rooms and meals while accompanying Gray on business trips. The problem: these bills were paid with industry funds provided by the twelve regional banks of the FHLB system. Last week Gray said he had personally repaid the full...
...hidden sense of humor, of naughtiness, of delight. The son responds with glee: "There's a whole movie in this story, ma. And one day I'm going to write it." Then he asks her to dance. He holds her in his arms, standing in for the absent father who is abandoning the family. The mother recaptures the grace and ease of youth and seems, for a moment, suffused with hope in a life that has been devoted to duty. But the spell ends, and the son confesses to himself and to a raptly attentive audience on the other side...
...never faltered, and it is in full flower in his trilogy. But for all its exuberant humor, Broadway Bound is a comedy only in the sense that Chekhov meant Uncle Vanya to be seen as a comedy. Its subjects include the dissolution of two marriages, the estrangements of a father from a daughter and of another father from his sons, the terminal cancer of one offstage character and the accidental death of another. Simon views the background of the play as "a war, a household war." Yet the play looks at grim events with a tempered optimism, a belief...
...most conspicuous thing about Simon's father was his absence: his marriage was stormy, and he was often away for protracted periods, leaving his wife Mamie and the boys, Neil and Danny, who was eight years older, to fend for themselves. Says Simon: "Each time he came back I thought, 'At last, we're together.' But it kept on like a yo-yo." Mamie Simon was resourceful: she worked at Gimbel's department store; she ran poker games in the house and took a cut of each pot. At the hardest times Neil and his mother were taken...