Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...code, a booming charter industry has sprung up to make such dreams come true. The tax shelters enable landlubber investors to buy yachts and lease them to vacationers for as little as $600 per person per week, or about the cost of a first-class beach resort. Says Simon Scott, marketing manager of The Moorings, a charter company that operates 110 yachts in the Caribbean islands of Tortola and St. Lucia: "Yachting is no longer the exclusive sport of the rich...
...fact that this is another Neil Simon play (for God's sake, how many are there?) should not frighten anyone off. It is one of the New Yorker's earlier works, and Simon, whose own characters have become walking cliches of American situation comedy, gains by the use of Chekov's characters. Each scene in the play is adapted from one of Chekhov's short stories, which means the actors must change character after each scene. This is a big challenge, and the cast, for the most part, meets...
...that lies beneath social forms. But at the end of about half the scenes, the grotesque is fired at the audience point blank: so-and-so dies, so-and-so is trapped forever. Admittedly, the alternative of "inheriting five million rubies" is ridiculous; still, one does attend a Neil Simon comedy to get such depressing tidbits of reality. Perhaps there is some social message here about the nature of life. Perhaps midterms are the ultimate reality...
Director Tony Simon and Producer Leslic Tamarabuchi do a fine job of blending an extremely talented cast into a more modern vehicle for the same theme. Marc Dolan as Rupert and Sue Kelly as Susan deserve especial praise for their convincing performances in difficult roles. Dolan does a fantastic job of portraying the intellectually keen Rupert while maintaining the credibility of the character. He succeeds remarkably in his role, holding the drama together in a lively yet composed performance. Kelly also succeeds in making the nerve-wraught accomplice a credible character...
Clancy's book differs from the usual commercial publishing success in a number of ways. First, it was brought out not by Simon & Schuster or Random House but by the Naval Institute Press (N.I.P.) of Annapolis, an academic publisher specializing in works like The Mariner's Pocket Companion and Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Second, the author is not an experienced novelist but a Maryland insurance broker who wrote his tale of high-tech undersea warfare without having served a single day in the Navy, much less aboard a submarine...