Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production error, a December 6 story on page three entitled "UMass Students Protest Anti-CIA Rally" was mistakenly accompanied by an irrelevant photo. The photo of protesters at a Harvard rally against British Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock should not have been placed alongside the UMass story...
...with a testimonial: "I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon." That kind of thing has been said by Danny's first partner, Kid Brother Neil. But actually, the blurb is from Woody Allen, with whom Danny collaborated on NBC's The Colgate Comedy Hour for a season in the mid-'50s. These days Danny's pupils are not apprentices but paying customers for classes he conducts privately in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where he lives...
...most standards, Danny Simon has more than fulfilled his boyhood dreams of show-business success. But the brother with whom he shared those dreams has attained immeasurably more. As a result, says Danny, "I have been living so long with 'Neil Simon's brother' " -- sometimes, erroneously, with "Neil Simon's younger brother" -- "that I'm thinking of changing my name." He adds, with the grin of a borsch-belt comic trying a little too hard, "That always gets a laugh." In fact, there is often a tinge of sadness in Danny's jokes about the situation. He admits, "The more...
Intensely protective of his brother during their troubled childhood, Danny wrestled emotionally with the fact of Neil's going off on his own. Says Danny: "My ex-wife said she felt I loved my brother more than I loved her." Danny wanted to direct his brother's first Broadway show, Come Blow Your Horn; after he failed to get the job, he refused to attend opening night. Danny lived the situation of one of his brother's greatest hits, The Odd Couple -- sharing an apartment with Hollywood Agent Roy Gerber, whose wife had left him -- and wrote 14 pages...
...times of crisis, the brothers turn to each other. Danny helped Neil start dating again after the death of his wife Joan. After Neil was hospitalized in November, Danny picked him up and brought him home. Says Danny: "As the years went on, I mellowed. Today I have no antipathy toward Neil. I stopped myself from writing plays, he didn't." Danny often jokes that he has had more plays written about him than Abraham Lincoln or Julius Caesar -- six by his count, from Come Blow Your Horn through Broadway Bound -- and older brothers are featured in at least...