Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People was the first and best of these films. It is the story of Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a beautiful young Serbian woman who is cursed to turn into a panther whenever she is sexually aroused. Obviously, love is a dangerous thing...
JAKE'S WOMEN. Neil Simon's most nakedly autobiographical play, opening on Broadway this week, is also his most acidly self-critical. His enduring subject has been the emotional isolation of the artist, and he has never been more acute -- but there is nary a redemptive one-liner in earshot...
...TIME by Richard M. Clurman (Simon & Schuster; $23). The mother of all business deals -- the 1989 betrothal of Time Inc. to Warner Communications -- is copiously documented by this former 20-year TIME staff member and editorial executive, who describes the intrigues, soul searching, chess moves and backstabbing in this sometimes startling, occasionally amusing chronicle of corporate courtship and union...
...younger audiences and allowing more plays to have larger-scale life, some theater leaders fret that they may be doing themselves long-term harm, creating a costly or even unsustainable expectation that every show will have a splash of celebrity. Says Emanuel Azenberg, who produces Neil Simon's work: "The real problems the theater has are not solved by a momentary sense of breath that the stars bring us." Instead of thinking about how to cut costs and reach a broader audience, producers who employ stars typically have to accede to higher salaries and shorter runs and thus raise ticket...
...share in the sweaty embraces of Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange? They are entwined in A Streetcar Named Desire. Prefer the wry wit of Alan Alda or the in-your-face comic angst of Judd Hirsch? They play beleaguered husbands and failed fathers in splendid new tragicomedies from Neil Simon and Herb Gardner. If your taste runs to grandes dames, Rosemary Harris enacts the mean matriarch in Simon's previous play, Lost in Yonkers, while Lynn Redgrave evokes the aggrieved wife of a self-anointed genius in Ibsen's The Master Builder...