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Alan Arkin
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Alan Wolf Arkin is an American actor, director, musician, and singer. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for his performances in The Russians Are Coming and he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Argo. Arkin was born Alan Wolf Arkin in Brooklyn, New York City] on March 26,1934, Arkin, a painter and writer, and his wife, Beatrice, a teacher. He was raised in a Jewish family with no emphasis on religion and his grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, and Germany. His parents moved to Los Angeles when Alan was 11, during the 1950s Red Scare, Arkins parents were accused of being Communists, and his father was fired when he refused to answer questions about his political ideology. David Arkin challenged the dismissal, but he was vindicated only after his death, Arkin attended Los Angeles City College from 1951 to 1953. With two friends, he formed the music group The Tarriers, in which Arkin sang. It reached #4 on the Billboard magazine chart the year as Harry Belafontes better-known hit version. The group appeared in the 1957 Calypso-exploitation film Calypso Heat Wave, singing Banana Boat Song, from 1958 to 1968, Arkin performed and recorded with the childrens folk group, The Baby Sitters. He also performed the role of Dr. Pangloss in a staging of Leonard Bernsteins operetta Candide, alongside Madeline Kahns Cunegonde. Arkin was an member of the Second City comedy troupe in the 1960s. Arkin is one of six actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance. Two years later, he was nominated, for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. In 1968, he appeared in the role of Inspector Clouseau after Peter Sellers disassociated himself from the role. His portrayal of Dr. Oatman, a scared and emotionally conflicted psychiatrist treating John Cusacks hit man character Martin Q, Blank in Grosse Point Blank was also well received. At 72 years old, Arkin was the sixth oldest winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, on Broadway, Arkin starred in Enter Laughing and Luv. He also directed The Sunshine Boys, among others, in 1969, Arkins directorial debut was a 12-minute childrens film titled People Soup, starring his sons Adam and Matthew Arkin. His most acclaimed directorial effort is Little Murders, released in 1971, the film opened to a lukewarm review by Roger Greenspan, and a more positive one by Vincent Canby in the New York Times
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Sally Kellerman
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Sally Clare Kellerman is an American actress, activist, author, producer, singer and voice-over artist. Kellermans acting career spans nearly 60 years, and her role as Major Margaret Hot Lips Houlihan in Robert Altmans film M*A*S*H earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. After MASH, she appeared in a number of the directors projects, the Player and Prêt-à-Porter, and the short-lived anthology TV series Gun. At age 18, Kellerman signed a contract with Verve Records. A second album, Sally, was released in 2009, Kellerman also contributed songs to the soundtracks for Brewster McCloud, Lost Horizon, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Boris and Natasha, The Movie. She has done commercial work for Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing, Mercedes-Benz. Kellermans animation work includes The Mouse and His Child, Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, Happily Ever After, Dinosaurs, Unsupervised and The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange. In April 2013 she released her memoir, Read My Lips, Stories of a Hollywood Life, describing her trials and tribulations in the entertainment business. Sally Clare Kellerman was born June 2,1937 in Long Beach, California, to Edith Baine, a teacher, and John Jack Helm Kellerman. During her sophomore year of school, the Kellermans moved from San Fernando to Park La Brea, Los Angeles. Due to her shyness, Kellerman made few friends and received poor grades, however, with the help of a high-school friend, Kellerman submitted a recording demo to Verve Records founder and head Norman Granz. After signing a contract with Verve, however, she was daunted by the task of becoming a recording artist, Kellerman enrolled in Jeff Coreys acting class. Within a year, she appeared in a production of John Osbornes Look Back in Anger staged by Corey and featuring classmates Shirley Knight, Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell and Robert Blake. Towards the end of the 1950s, Kellerman joined the newly opened Actors Studio West and debuted before the camera in the film, to pay her tuition, Kellerman worked as a waitress at Chez Paulette. The decade found Kellerman making a number of television-series appearances and she was in an episode of the western Cheyenne as well as a role as a waitress in the John Forsythe sitcom Bachelor Father. Struggling for parts in television and films, Kellerman acted on stage and she debuted in Henrik Ibsens An Enemy of the People, followed by parts in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Leslie Stevenss The Marriage-Go-Round and Michael Shurtleffs Call Me by My Rightful Name. In 1964, Kellerman played Judith Bellero, the manipulative and ruthless wife of Richard Bellero, a role as Holly Mitchell, perverted mistress of George Peppards character in the film The Third Day, followed. A year later, she played psychiatrist Elizabeth Dehner in Where No Man Has Gone Before, before the closing the musical numbers were recorded live, and she recorded three songs which appeared on the original cast recording
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Neil Simon
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Marvin Neil Simon is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays and he has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York during the Great Depression, with his parents financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and he often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio. Among them were Sid Caesars Your Show of Shows from 1950 and he began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn, which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two successful plays, Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple, for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a celebrity and the hottest new playwright on Broadway. During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered seventeen Tony nominations and won three and his comedies centred on subjects such as marital conflict, infidelity, sibling rivalry, adolescence, and fear of aging. Simons facility with dialogue gives his stories a rare blend of realism, humor, Neil Simon was born on July 4,1927 in The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents. His father, Irving Simon, was a garment salesman, and his mother, Simon had one older brother by eight years, Danny Simon. Simons childhood was difficult and mostly due to his parents tempestuous marriage. He would sometimes block out their arguments by putting a pillow over his ears at night and his father often abandoned the family for months at a time, causing them further financial and emotional hardship. As a result, Simon and his brother Danny were sometimes forced to live with different relatives, or else their parents took in boarders for some income. During an interview with writer Lawrence Grobel, Simon stated, To this day I never really knew what the reason for all the fights, shed hate him and be very angry, but he would come back and she would take him back. It made me strong as an independent person, to escape difficulties at home he often took refuge in movie theaters, where he especially enjoyed comedies with silent stars like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy. Simon recalls, I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud, I think part of what made me a comedy writer is the blocking out of some of the really ugly, painful things in my childhood and covering it up with a humorous attitude
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Rumors (play)
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Rumors is a farcical play by Neil Simon. Rumors premiered at the Old Globe Theatre on September 22,1988, rumors opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 17,1988 and transferred to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre where it closed after 535 performances and eight previews. Directed by Gene Saks, the original cast included Lisa Banes, Christine Baranski, Andre Gregory, Ken Howard, Ron Leibman, Joyce Van Patten, the scenery was by Tony Straiges, costumes by Joseph G. Aulisi, and lighting by Tharon Musser. The song La Bamba was required to be used in the play, veronica Hamel, Dick Latessa, Larry Linville, and Alice Playten were among the cast replacements throughout the run. Baranski won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, a reading was held in September 2013, directed by Kathleen Marshall and starring Martin Short, Matthew Broderick, Andrea Martin and Julie White, with the possibility of a Broadway production. In March 2016, Independent Theatre Pakistan went on to produce the adaptation of Neil Simons famous farcical comedy play in Lahore. He noted that This is completely different for me. Its unlike anything Ive ever written and these arent extremely wealthy people, but they are well-to-do. So I decided to dress them in evening clothes, there was something about having them dressed in evening clothes that I thought was a nice counterpoint to the chaos that was happening in the play. And so I picked a reason for them to be dressed elegantly, the play starts with Ken Gorman and his wife, Chris Gorman at the 10th anniversary party of Charlie Brock, the Deputy Mayor of New York, and his wife, Myra. Unfortunately, things are not going quite to plan, all the kitchen staff is gone, Myra is missing, and Charlie has shot himself in the head. It appeared that he had taken some Valium, and was falling asleep as he fired the gun, Chris gets off the phone with Dr. Dudley just as the doorbell rings. Chris opens the door and lets in Lenny and Claire Ganz, Lenny and Claire have just been in a car accident, and Lenny calls his doctor, who also happens to be Dr. Dudley, to ask him about his neck. Claire and Lenny exchange rumors that they have heard about Charlie and Myra, finally they confront Ken, who lets them in on the situation. Lenny declares they should call the police, but Ken disagrees, before they can agree on anything, another car shows up. Ken goes back upstairs to Charlies bedroom, and Claire opens the door to let in Ernie Cusack, a psychologist, Claire, Chris, and Lenny engage the Cusacks in conversation, not telling them about the situation with Charlie. Ken comes out of the bedroom and requests Chris presence, while Lenny distracts the Cusacks. It turns out Ken was taking the gun away, tripped on Charlies slippers and accidentally fired the gun, as the Cusacks prepare dinner, the final guests arrive, Glenn and Cassie Cooper, who have a very strained relationship and argue constantly. Act II begins as dinner ends, the Cusacks and Coopers having been told the entirety of the situation, the guests decide to place blame for the situation on Ken
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Turner Classic Movies
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgias Midtown business district, historically, the channels programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, concerns over Turner Entertainments corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGMs library of films released up to May 9,1986, Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies, Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the form of programming for TCM upon the networks launch. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14,1994, at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the date and time were chosen for their historical significance as the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City. The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, at the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. AMC had broadened its content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002. In the early 90s AMC abandoned its format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies, in March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video. In 2008, TCM won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, in April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Graumans Chinese Theater and the Graumans Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. In 2007, some of the films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCMs website. The networks programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any video release
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Paula Prentiss
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Paula Prentiss is an American actress best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are, Mans Favorite Sport. The Stepford Wives, Whats New Pussycat, in Harms Way, The Black Marble, and The Parallax View, and the cult television series He & She. Before high school, Paula, who grew to 5 ft 10 in, was always the tallest person in class and she attended Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. In 1958 while studying drama at Northwestern University, she met future husband Richard Benjamin, while attending Northwestern she was discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was offered a film contract. Prentiss first became known as an actress in the early 1960s with such films as Where the Boys Are, The Honeymoon Machine, Bachelor in Paradise. In all four films Prentiss was paired with the 6 ft 5 in actor Jim Hutton and she continued to star in comedies later with Rock Hudson in Mans Favorite Sport. in The World of Henry Orient and Whats New, Pussycat. With Peter Sellers, in Last of the Red Hot Lovers with Alan Arkin, in Move with Elliott Gould, and in director Billy Wilders last film, Buddy Buddy, with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. She also appeared in the war films Catch-22 and In Harms Way, the thriller The Parallax View with Warren Beatty, for one season, Prentiss co-starred with her husband, Richard Benjamin, in the CBS sitcom He & She. Prentiss was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy,10,2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Prentiss and actor/director Richard Benjamin wedded on October 26,1961, in 1965, while filming Whats New, Pussycat in Paris, Prentiss suffered a nervous breakdown that kept her out of film work for five years. She returned to work with Benjamin in the television series He & She. The couple appeared together in films as Catch-22 and Saturday the 14th. Benjamin also directed Prentiss in an appearance in Mrs. Winterbourne. Prentiss and Benjamin have two children, Ross and Prentiss. Ann Prentiss, was Paulas younger sister and also an actress, Paula Prentiss at the Internet Movie Database Paula Prentiss at the Internet Broadway Database Paula Prentiss at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Paula Prentiss at AllMovie
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Barefoot in the Park (film)
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Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American comedy film. The film stars Jane Fonda as Corie and Robert Redford as Paul, the films screenplay was written by Simon. Gene Saks directed Robert Redford, reprising his Broadway role of Paul, and Jane Fonda, mildred Natwick reprises her stage role as the brides mother, Charles Boyer is featured as the eccentric upstairs neighbor, and Herb Edelman reprises his stage role as a telephone installer. The lead female role had been offered to Natalie Wood who had played opposite Robert Redford in two movies. Wood declined the offer because she wanted to take time off, Natwick was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Fonda was nominated for a BAFTA as Best Foreign Actress, and Simon received a nod from the Writers Guild of America. Corie, a spirited young woman, and Paul Bratter, a more conservative, less free-spirited man, are a recently married couple. Corie decorates the small, leaky apartment, turning it into a little home for the two. One of the odd people living in the apartment building. He lives in the attic of the building, once even climbing through the Bratters apartment window to get to his, Victor helps Corie with the apartment, teaching her how to work the seemingly broken heating and plumbing. Victor takes them all to an Albanian restaurant on Staten Island where he knows the owner, there, the group drinks, and Corie and Victor get up to dance with the belly dancer, while Paul and Ethel watch in embarrassment and awe. Afterwards, Corie and Victor return to the apartment in high energy as Paul, as Victor escorts Ethel outside, Corie and Paul begin an argument over their differences. Corie feels her adventurous spirit is not equal to Pauls cautious demeanor, one of the examples she gives is that he would not go barefoot in the park with her one evening. His excuse was that it was freezing, Corie says she will kick Paul out and get a big dog to protect her from him. Paul says maybe it will allow her to have someone who will go barefoot in the park with her. They eventually go to sleep, Corie in their tiny bedroom, the next day, Paul comes home with a fever, but Corie still insists she wants a divorce. The two spend a time together in their apartment before Corie kicks Paul out. She then gets a call from her aunt, saying that Ethel did not come home, scared, Corie begins to panic, but eventually finds out that her mother was at Victors apartment. Apparently, while Victor was escorting her to her home in New Jersey the night prior, Ethel slipped on some ice, strangely, Ethel was wearing nothing but her undergarments and Victors Japanese kimono
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The Odd Couple (play)
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The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon. Following its premiere on Broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s television series, as well as derivative works. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, the neat, uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly, easygoing Oscar Madison, Simon adapted the play in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates in The Female Odd Couple. An updated version of the 1965 show appeared in 2002 with the title Oscar and Felix, sources vary as to the origins of the play. In The Washington Posts obituary of Simons brother Danny, a television writer, mr. Simon had moved in with a newly single theatrical agent named Roy Gerber in Hollywood, and they invited friends over one night. Mr. Simon botched the pot roast, the next day, Gerber told him, Sweetheart, that was a lovely dinner last night. What are we going to have tonight, mr. Simon replied, What do you mean, cook you dinner. You never take me out to dinner, Danny Simon wrote a partial first draft of the play, but then handed over the idea to Neil. Vogel later wrote that Brooks had insomnia, a brushstroke of paranoia, Simon credited Boston critic Elliot Norton with helping him develop the final act of the play. Norton practiced drama criticism when the relationship between the regional critic and playwrights whose shows were undergoing tryouts in their towns were not as adversarial as they were to become. Appearing on the television show Eliott Norton Reviews, during Simons conversation with the critic. As it appeared originally in Boston, the characters the Pigeon Sisters did not appear in the final act, Simon told The Boston Globe, He invited one of the stars and the writer. He loved the play and gave it a review but he said the third act was lacking something. On the show he said, You know who I missed in the act was the Pigeon Sisters. It made a difference in the play. I rewrote it and it worked very well, I was so grateful to Elliot. Elliot had such a keen eye, I dont know if he saved the play or not, but he made it a bigger success. Felix Ungar, a neurotic, neat freak newswriter, is out by his wife, and moves in with his friend Oscar Madison
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Howard W. Koch
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Howard Winchel Koch was an American director and producer of film and television. Born to a Jewish family in in New York City, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School and he began his film career as an employee at Universal Studios office in New York then made his Hollywood filmmaking debut in 1947 as an assistant director. He worked as a producer for the first time in 1953, in 1964, Paramount Pictures appointed him head of film production, a position he held until 1966 when he left to set up his own production company. Among his numerous productions, Howard W. Koch produced the Academy Awards show on eight occasions. Dedicated to the industry, he served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, in 1990 the Academy honored him with The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and in 1991 he received the Frank Capra Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America. Together with actor Telly Savalas, Howard Koch owned Tellys Pop, winner of several important California races for juveniles including the Norfolk Stakes, Howard W. Koch suffered from Alzheimers disease and died in Los Angeles in 2001. He had two children from a marriage of 64 years to Ruth Pincus, in 2004, his son Hawk Koch was elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencess Board of Governors. Film Shield for Murder Big House, U. S. A. S. A, some Kind of Hero Airplane II, The Sequel Ghost Television Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra Howard W. Koch at the Internet Movie Database
