Word: neils
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...time Yorkin and Lear crossed paths on the Martin and Lewis show two years later, the Lear-Simmons partnership was doing so well that it had to farm out some of its work to the younger team of Neil Simon, the future Broadway playwright, and his brother Danny. "To me Norman was big-time," recalls Yorkin, who was then a lowly assistant director. "He lived at the Waldorf and moved in a different world from...
...Port Authority, which worked closely with the FAA in developing possible options, seems primed to make whatever changes are necessary to bring LaGuardia back to something resembling normalcy. "We have proposed both market solutions and administrative tools to get the carrier to use LaGuardia more efficiently," says Neil Levin, the recently installed head of the Port Authority, who brings a businessman's impatience to the sluggish world of aviation policy. Levin seems to be itching to do something soon, and is not opposed to using strongarm tactics to accomplish his goal. One page of options from Levin's office boldly...
...opposite sides of the Thames, two shows display the variety of London theater: My Fair Lady, the hit musical revival at the Royal National, and The Shape of Things, Neil LaBute's spiky quartet that just opened for a four-week run at the Almeida at King's Cross. One is sumptuous and familiarly melodious, the other intimate and jarring. But both, really, tell the same story: a perfectionist with artistic temperament takes the challenge to turn a nobody into a socially attractive commodity. Like George Bernard Shaw and Lerner and Loewe before him, LaBute is updating the Greek myth...
...some artists (and, of course, their fans), summer is also nostalgia season. Roxy Music, minus original band member Brian Eno, should draw crowds with its reunion tour, the band's first live performances since 1983. Other acts on the road include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Beach Boys and Bill Wyman (without the Stones) and David Gilmour (without Pink Floyd.). Still other veteran artists mix longtime favorites with new chart-topping music. Madonna, Bon Jovi and U2 have all had huge hits in recent months, and all three have huge tours this summer, with Madonna's first tour...
Under the mostly sunny skies of Boston and Cambridge (it never rains on Commencement Day), Harvard students at the College and each of the eleven other schools will receive diplomas today as President Neil L. Rudenstine awards 6,194 degrees in today's 350th Commencement exercises...