Word: simonized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WRITING such two-dimensional comedies as California Suite and Chapter Two, Neil Simon forever distinguished himself as perhaps the most mediocre playwright to ever have a Broadway theatre named...
...Suite Dreams, Jeff Yang '89 acts on the misguided notion that turning California Suite, Simon's four-part laugh riot, into a shorter two-part comedy will add some missing dimension. Yang adds eight characters and connects two unrelated segments, but he can't keep his final product from reeking of Simonesque one-liners and contrived Love Boat-type situations. The hard-working cast simply cannot overcome the triteness of the dialogue...
...Simon's idea of high comedy is to construct sitcom-like scenarios of marital tension and infidelity, milking all the lame laughter he can get out of it. In California Suite, four couples come at different times to the same suite of a posh hotel. They proceed to harangue each other, making snide remarks about their mates' sexual prowess, and to show how very un-funny California life...
Charges about his World War activities have plagued Waldheim since early last year, and he has consistently denied them. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal yesterday said Waldheim should allow an investigation by an independent group of military historians, who could make a report in four or five weeks...
After declining to give an award for drama last year, the judges honored August Wilson's Fences, a play about a black family in the 1950s. In doing so, however, the Pulitzer board overruled a recommendation by its three-member nominating jury, whose choice was Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Peter Taylor, 70, an acclaimed short-story writer, won the fiction prize for his first novel in 36 years, A Summons to Memphis...