Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peter Collier and David Horowitz have made a business of probing the underbellies of grand American families in books about the Kennedys and the Fords. In The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Simon and Schuster; 542 pages; $27.50), written by Collier with research help from Horowitz, Theodore is portrayed as the head of a dynasty. Never mind that his family and Franklin's were distant cousins connected mainly by Eleanor, who was Theodore's niece. Her father was Theodore's brother Elliott, a dandy who late in life was capable of consuming six bottles of liquor before lunch...
...real misogynist in the movie is Simon (Bill Paxton), a sleazy car salesman who convinces Helen that he's a spy who needs her help. He even treats Arnold to his personal view on life and women at one point. But he's too slimy for words, the kind of guy who has to lie for sex. He's a jerk, and his lifestyle is clearly not one to be imitated...
When Neil Simon was fresh from his days as a TV writer, he thought comedy was one-liners. As he matured, Simon learned that the most enjoyable laughs come from character and situation. Of Lost in Yonkers he boasted -- correctly -- that its funniest scene has not one joke. Paul Rudnick, 36, the most gifted gagsmith of his generation, has yet to learn that lesson. He excels in Hollywood (Sister Act, Addams Family Values), where narrative is usually written by committee. On the stage, his first love, he has not moved beyond pastiche...
...folder Humphreys found a sketchy narrative about a child abandoned by her 13-year-old mother and left to be raised by a grandmother who is beaten to death by her second husband. Daddy, as he is called, is not only a killer but a tyrant, an African-American Simon Legree, who turns Ruthie into a body servant. She shaves him, bathes him and cuts the calluses off his feet. When displeased -- which is often -- he beats her with the buckle end of a belt. The narrator was no angel either: she used drugs and traded sex for cash...
Tyrannical but talented Simon & Schuster CEO booted by Viacom...