Word: simone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears-and Neil Simon's comic prowess-they might tell tales as mirth-provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse...
...fiscal 1967 (partly because he junked $1,560,000 worth of obsolete wooden cases and deposit-type bottles). But in the nine months ending last December, sales shot up to a record $155 million and profits rebounded to $2,890,000. Naturally, nobody is more delighted than Norton Simon, a notably tough taskmaster. "Dave has done sensationally considering the time he's been aboard," says Simon. "Canada Dry is a substantially rejuvenated company." Wall Street agrees. From its 1966 low of $19 a share, the company's common stock climbed to $34 early this year...
...Michel Simon) is the peasant patriarch-a ramshackle curmudgeon who feeds his doddering dog with a fork, refuses to eat the rabbits that are mainstays of the family wartime diet, worships Marshal Petain, and fervently believes that Jews are responsible for most of the woes of mankind. The story concerns the deepening love of man and boy for each other, in a world neither of them understands...
Writer-Director Claude Berri tells it simply-without jerking a tear, hoking a climax, or ringing in the alarums and excursions that a wartime setting has ready at hand. Michel Simon plays the ancient in a triumph of humorous, humane acting-turning a Sunday lunch into a bibulous burlesque, hectoring his family, grumping at the BBC, and lecturing his little friend on some of the ways to tell a Jew ("They smell bad"). In his first movie role, young Alain Cohen survives country living and the reality of imbecile anti-Semitism with the help of two sharp eyes, an impish...
COCKSURE by Mordecai Richler. 250 pages. Simon & Schuster...