Word: simonized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Porsches and the Princeton admissions process in less than two hours, and De Mornay was easily best-of-show. Thousands cheered. De Mornay went on to play a rock singer opposite Michael O'Keefe's baseball player in The Slugger's Wife, a problem film written by Neil Simon that somehow failed to be funny about women's careers and self-realization. Then, shrewdly, she dropped down to a supporting role in The Trip to Bountiful, a film in which the redoubtable Geraldine Page, who won an Oscar for it this spring, does the bravura acting. Page...
Nonetheless, Sweet Charity is no masterpiece. Neil Simon's book is more often predictable than funny, and the second act neither coheres nor makes much sense. Dorothy Fields' lyrics are much too witty to come from the dim characters. Cy Coleman's so-so score provides two rousing standards, which evoke Fosse's cleverest numbers: the sullenly sexy ensemble come-on in Big Spender, and Allen's sprightly, sprawling solo to If My Friends Could See Me Now. Although Allen belts out the songs and adapts capably to Fosse's jagged, staccato movements, she utterly lacks Charity's doormat vulnerability...
Wall Street Financier William Simon is renowned for buying companies with borrowed money and then managing to reap huge profits on his in vestments. Last week he was at it again. Simon's Wesray investment firm agreed to acquire Avis, America's perennial No. 2 car-rental firm, from Beatrice. Analysts estimated the price at $250 million...
...Simon, who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Nixon, and his Wesray partner Raymond Chambers have put together 20 acquisitions over the past 5 1/2 years. In the Avis deal, Simon apparently outbid none other than Warren Avis. The Avis founder sold control of his company in 1954 but recently offered to buy it back...
News Editor for This Issue: John N. Rosenthal Night Editors: Peter J. Howe '86 Peter C. Krause '89 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Copy Editor: Peter D. Sagal '87 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Photo Editor: M. Jeremy Yamin '87 Sports Editor: Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editor: Dahlia Martin...