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...mean mother (Irene Worth); her 36-year-old daughter (Mercedes Ruehl), ! whom the mother has contrived to keep in a state of childish dependency; and a rebel son (Richard Dreyfuss), who has become a gangster: confine just these three most colorful members of the Kurnitz family in a small space (the apartment above Mom's candy store in Yonkers, circa 1942), and claustrophobia begins to itch at one's soul. Add a couple of lively boys, Jay and Arty (Brad Stoll and Mike Damus), forced by circumstances to live with Grandma for the worst part of a year...
...superb tragicomedy in which Neil Simon unflinchingly revisits the time in his childhood when he and his brother had to live as humbled supplicants among richer relatives (an episode more sentimentally imagined in his 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs). In Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), Simon brilliantly plumbs the sadistic soul of stoic, rugged individualism...
...superb tragicomedy in which Neil Simon unflinchingly revisits the time in his childhood when he and his brother had to live as humbled supplicants among richer relatives (an episode more sentimentally imagined in his 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs). In Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), Simon brilliantly plumbs the sadistic soul of stoic, rugged individualism...
...Lone Ranger, Road of Life, Ma Perkins and Weekday (Margaret Truman was his co-host). On TV, he did PM East and Guess Again and was master of ceremonies on Big Surprise just before the quiz-show scandals broke. During that period he also played on Broadway in Harry Kurnitz's Reclining Figure (Critic Walter Kerr wrote that Mike performed with "ingratiating ease...
Died Harry Kurnitz, 60, one of Hollywood's most durable and successful screen writers; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Bon vivant, ladies' man, globetrotter, Kurnitz was never one to bite the hand that paid him. "I write like Pavlov's dog," he said. "I just start typing automatically in the morning. And in 30 years, he cranked out more than 40 scripts, some bad but quite a few good, among them 1944's See Here, Private Hargrove, 1957's Witness for the Prosecution and 1966's How to Steal a Million. Broadway...