Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Screenplay by Neil Simon...
...call California Suite uneven doesn't really begin to describe the movie's split personality. This latest Neil Simon-Herbert Ross collaboration is by turns silly and thoughtful, tedious and charming, broad and delicate. It contains some of Simon's best writing as well as his worst: childish jokes about vomiting coexist with wise statements about the art of marriage. So mixed are the returns on California Suite that, if it were an election, one would insist on a recount...
...Time for Truth, Simon...
...graduated from playing her mother's daughter on Ball's TV show Here's Lucy to leads onstage and in films. She has also published some song lyrics and seemed the natural choice to play the lyricist to Actor Robert Klein's songwriter in Neil Simon's new play, They're Playing Our Song. So Simon said after trying out 300 other actresses for the role. The critics agreed when the comedy opened a pre-Broadway run in Los Angeles. Mother agreed too. Said Ball: "It's very proud-making. I enjoyed...
...popular-priced field, Avon still holds a lead, though Revlon has been catching up. In the rush to sign up big-name clothes designers to put their names on perfumes, other firms have been quite as aggressive as Revlon. Revlon bagged Bill Blass, but Norton Simon Inc., parent company of Max Factor, got Halston, and Helena Rubinstein took Anne Klein. Calvin Klein has built up a big business operating...