Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon takes a long-term lease on laughter, booking three sets of zany American archetypes into a trio of playlets...
...GRADUATE (Columbia). Simon and Garfunkel already had half their work done when they sat down to record this score from The Graduate. As it turns out, it was the better half. Sounds of Silence with its kaleidoscopic imagery was the title tune of their big 1965 album, which also had the gentleness of April Come She Will. Two of the new songs, On the Strip and Mrs. Robinson, are bright and bouncy, but the others, Sun-porch Cha-cha-cha, The Folks and The Singleman Party Foxtrot, don't quite measure...
...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway comedy of an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his fussy, divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transformed to the screen virtually unchanged. Actor Matthau more than makes up for the static mise en scene with his comic genius...
...other three members of the fact-finding committee are Judge Simon H. Rifkind, Hyland G. Lewis, professor of Sociology at City College in Brooklyn, and Jefferson Barnes, dean of the University of Virginia Law School. No one from Columbia will sit on the committee...
...DISNEY VERSION by Richard Schickel. 384 pages. Simon & Schuster...