Articles
Appreciation: The Odd Couple’s Jack Klugman, an Actor Who Could Crack Wise – with Heart
The craggy humanity Klugman brought his characters showed the bittersweetness Oscar Madison tried to hide behind his blunt talk, wisecracks and cigar smoke
Neil Simon: Reliving A Poignant Past
A tight-jawed housewife, nearing 50 and careworn, is asked by her son to tell once more of the time in her girlhood when she danced a fox-trot with George Raft...
A Letter from the Publisher: Dec. 15, 1986
When Neil Simon's 23rd play, Broadway Bound, opened in New York City last week, TIME Theater Critic William A. Henry III judged it the best American play of the...
Stage Fight
At least Lou Grant was the kind of grumpy boss a gal could love. In playwright Neil Simon, MARY TYLER MOORE seems to have a harsher critic. After receiving a...
Theater: The Dinner Party
"Do you know what I never said to you during our divorce?" "That you'll take less money?" The couples-therapy repartee in this Broadway comedy harks back to the...
THEATER: BAD MEMORY: DAVID MAMET AND NEIL SIMON GET NOSTALGIC
Beware of autobiography. An artist who draws on his own life for subject matter may, in the process of working out private demons, be unlocking major creative...
Punch Lines, But Little Punch
When Neil Simon and other such budding comedy legends as Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart wrote for TV comic Sid Caesar in his 1950s heyday, they rarely...
THEATER: Gag Orders
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...
Laughter on The Brink of Tears
In the pivotal scene of Neil Simon's wonderful Lost in Yonkers, which opened on Broadway last week, a mildly retarded 35-year-old woman sits her family down to...
Lost In Ambition
TITLE: NEIL SIMON'S LOST IN YONKERS DIRECTOR: MARTHA COOLIDGE WRITER: NEIL SIMON THE BOTTOM LINE: An airless adaptation of a hit play overexposes its flaws. One...
