Word: neil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merrick to wrap Bacharach and his partner into a Broadway package, complete with a golden property and a golden boy to adapt it. The plan was to take The Apartment, one of the best American movies of the last ten years, and entrust its conversion to the amazingly successful Neil Simon, famous for his four concurrent Broadway hits. But as in all schemes where addition is allowed to pass for logic, there was the danger of the parts not resting snugly with each other, and it is exactly that danger which hits Promises, Promises hard. The plot, taken step...
Harvard still has not shaken the injury jinx: senior end Pete Hall and Ananis's replacements. Jim Higgins and Neil Hurley, will all be sidelined...
PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon makes three bids to provide amusement and, ably assisted by Director Mike Nichols and Actors Maureen Stapleton and E. G. Marshall, scores a grand slam...
Less funny if more consistent is Gene Saks' filmed version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. A dull bunch of character actors takes the edge off the comedy, and Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon don't work nearly so well together as in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie. By chance this assertion can be tested since The Fortune Cookie is on re-release at the Orpheum. It, rather than The Odd Couple or The Producers, is the legitimate '60's heir to the best tradition of Hollywood comedies...
However, Harvard's front five looks like it has the makings of being a typically tough Crimson defense. Seniors Steve Zebal. Alex MacLean, Pete Hall and Steve Ranere should harrass O'Neil and Mowatt all afternoon, with junior Ed Sadler or senior Lon Kaplan adding their big hands...