Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, there are other things to do and see in Pasadena. Football fans will want to visit the Rose Bowl, and art buffs shouldn't miss the Norton Simon Museum or the Huntington Art Gallery and Library. Southern California's more famous attractions, such as Disneyland and Hollywood, are only short drives away. The beaches, mountains and deserts that usually attract spring break crowds are equally nearby...
...doesn't have to have grown up in Yonkers or Brighton Beach to find the humor, the plays translate perfectly beyond the confines of setting. Simon took his experiences, and made them all of our experiences. In this female verson of The Odd Couple, that generality has deteriorated into a stereotyping which makes the rest of the play hollow...
...Since Simon bothered to write a female version, one would hope that he would provide us with females, not Oscar, Felix and friends in dresses. There is not one single female voice, yet, paradoxically, the female voice is distinct. There should be some recognition, in an attempt of this sort, of this distinction...
Jones' Olive come closest to this idea, with a tough sexiness that doesn't preclude her from admitting to loneliness, to vulnerability. Jones doesn't settle for turning Olive into a sterotype. Instead, Jones infuses Simon's creation, a hard-nosed sports reporter, with streaks of warmth and compassion, making Olive the closest thing to a real complex character that this play...
...Couple. By Neil Simon. A few years ago, Neil Simon rewrote his hit comedy "The Odd Couple" for women. This is it. At least as funny as the original, it's about what happens when a neurotic, nearly separated woman with extremely anal tendencies moves in with a friend who prizes her life of creative disorder. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $4; $3 for Leverett House residents...