Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL, by Neil Simon, makes The Odd Couple a threesome. A pair of post-Ivy League rebels (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) publish a protest magazine with virtuously impoverished zeal until a girl (Connie Stevens) who looks like a whipped-cream frappe shows up to curdle their joy. The gags come in two varieties: Simon-pure and simple Simon...
From William Rothenstein, who did his portrait, Nicolson learned that Oscar Wilde "had a red face, grey lips and very bad teeth. He was so ashamed of his teeth that he used to put his hand over them when he spoke, giving an odd, furtive expression to his face...
Theirs was an odd marriage. While Harold was going everywhere-meeting here with Duff Cooper, there with Lord Beaverbrook, growling at Churchill for failing to muster sufficient opposition to Hitler-Vita remained secluded at Sissinghurst, the Tudor castle they had bought in Kent. She was a strangely masculine woman who wore breeches and gaiters in winter and linen slacks in summer, and who often said that her one enduring regret was that she was not born a boy. Still, Vita was enchantingly feminine where Harold was concerned. Her letters to him were filled with tenderness, as were...
...Star-Spangled Girl. Eden without Eve is Neil Simon's idea of Paradise. The eternal female drives his characters nuts. In The Odd Couple, a pair of poker-playing middle-agers fled their wives to room together in bachelor bliss. In The Star-Spangled Girl, a pair of post-Ivy League rebels share a dropout of an apartment with penurious satisfaction until a girl who looks like a whipped-cream frappé shows up to curdle their...
George Axelrod has directed the cast to act with the fury of lions loosed on early Christians. Yet even when the players flay their roles, enough humor prevails to permit Girl to join Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple and Sweet Charity as another hit, making Neil Simon the first playwright since Avery Hopwood in 1920 to have four Broadway shows running at the same time...