Neil Simon On Screen

Author : Peter Shelley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786471980

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Neil Simon on Screen by Peter Shelley Pdf

Neil Simon is the most successful American playwright on Broadway, and the winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement. Many of his plays have been adapted into films and made-for-television movies, and he has written original screenplays and television specials. This book provides a catalogue of Simon's screen work with cast and crew information, synopses, release dates, reviews, awards and DVD availability. Notes on each film cover his narrative subjects and themes as well as adaptation, direction and performance.

Author : Peter Shelley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617527

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Neil Simon on Screen by Peter Shelley Pdf

Neil Simon is the most successful American playwright on Broadway, and the winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement. Many of his plays have been adapted into films and made-for-television movies, and he has written original screenplays and television specials. This book provides a catalogue of Simon's screen work with cast and crew information, synopses, release dates, reviews, awards and DVD availability. Notes on each film cover his narrative subjects and themes as well as adaptation, direction and performance.

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501155017

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Neil Simon's Memoirs by Neil Simon Pdf

The complete memoirs of Neil Simon, the greatest—and most successful—American playwright of all time, the author of such iconic works as Lost in Yonkers, The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, and The Goodbye Girl, now with an insightful Introduction by Nathan Lane. This omnibus edition combines Neil Simon’s two memoirs, Rewrites and The Play Goes On, into one volume that spans his extraordinary five-decade career in theater, television, and film. Rewrites takes Simon through his first love, his first play, and his first brush with failure. There is the humor of growing up in Washington Heights (the inspiration for his play Brighton Beach Memoirs) where, despite his parents’ rocky marriage and many separations, he learned to see the funny side of family drama, as when his mother thought she saw a body on the floor in their apartment—and it turned out to be the clothes his father discarded in the hallway after a night of carousing. He describes his marriage to his beloved wife, Joan, and writes lucidly about the pain of losing her to cancer. The Play Goes On adds to his life’s story, as he wins the Pulitzer Prize and reflects with humor and insight on his tumultuous life and meteoric career. “Neil Simon’s terrific memoirs are worth revisiting” (New York Post). Now, with the whole story in one place, he traces the history of modern entertainment over the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of a man who started life the son of a garment salesman and became the greatest—and most successful—American playwright of all time.

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743242288

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The Play Goes On by Neil Simon Pdf

A revealing and heartfelt memoir of a Pulitzer Prize–winning artist finding joy and inspiration after tragedy. In his critically acclaimed Rewrites, Neil Simon talked about his beginnings—his early years of working in television, his first real love, his first play, his first brush with failure, and, most moving of all, his first great loss. Simon's same willingness to open his heart to the reader permeates The Play Goes On. This second act takes the reader from the mid-1970s to the present, a period in which Simon wrote some of his most popular and critically acclaimed plays, including the Brighton Beach trilogy and Lost in Yonkers, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Simon experienced enormous professional success during this time, but in his personal life he struggled to find that same sense of happiness and satisfaction. After the death of his first wife, he and his two young daughters left New York for Hollywood. There he remarried, and when that foundered he remarried again. Told with his characteristic humor and unflinching sense of irony, The Play Goes On is rich with stories of how Simon's art came to imitate his life. Simon's forty-plus plays make up a body of work that is a long-running memoir in its own right, yet here, in a deeper and more personal book than his first volume, Simon offers a revealing look at an artist in crisis but still able and willing to laugh at himself.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Ben Siegel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496822918

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Conversations with Neil Simon by Jackson R. Bryer,Ben Siegel Pdf

Neil Simon (1927–2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day—including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis—and he wrote for fabled television programs alongside a group of writers that included Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Michael Stewart, and Sid Caesar. After television, Simon embarked on a playwriting career. In the next four decades he saw twenty-eight of his plays and five musicals produced on Broadway. Thirteen of those plays and three of the musicals ran for more than five hundred performances. He was even more widely known for his screenplays—some twenty-five in all. Yet, despite this success, it was not until his BB Trilogy—Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound—that critics and scholars began to take Simon seriously as a literary figure. This change in perspective culminated in 1991 when his play Lost in Yonkers won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In the twenty-two interviews included in Conversations with Neil Simon, Simon talks candidly about what it was like to write commercially successful plays that were dismissed by critics and scholars. He also speaks at length about the differences between writing for television, for the stage, and for film. He speaks openly and often revealingly about his relationships with, among many others, Mike Nichols, Walter Matthau, Sid Caesar, and Jack Lemmon. Above all, these interviews reveal Neil Simon as a writer who thought long and intelligently about creating for stage, film, and television, and about dealing with serious subjects in a comic mode. In so doing, Conversations with Neil Simon compels us to recognize Neil Simon’s genius.

Author : Gary Konas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135598853

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Neil Simon by Gary Konas Pdf

First Published in 1997.The 16 essays and interviews in this volume explore the background and works of Neil Simon, the most successful playwright in American history. Several of the entries trace Simon's Jewish heritage and its influence on his plays. Although Simon is best known as a writer of a remarkable series of hit Broadway comedies, the contributors to this book have identified a number of "serious" recurring themes in his work, suggesting that a reassessment of the playwright as a dramatist is appropriate. Three interviews with Simon and his longtime producer yield valuable facts about the playwright that will, along with the critical essays, aid the scholar seeking new insights into contemporary American drama in general and Neil Simon in particular.

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Actors
ISBN : 1582880433

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Neil Simon's 45 Seconds from Broadway by Neil Simon Pdf

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Male friendship
ISBN : 9780684859255

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Odd Couple One and Two by Neil Simon Pdf

"The Odd Couple I" and "The Odd Couple II," by America's premier playwright, Neil Simon, are two of the author's most famous and beloved works. Oscar and Felix are two of the stage and screen's most memorable and endearing characters. For the first time, the screenplays are collected in this volume.

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476615394

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The Odd Couple on Stage and Screen by Bob Leszczak Pdf

Inspired by the real life post-divorce experiences of television comedy writer Danny Simon, The Odd Couple has touched multiple generations of fans. Playwright Neil Simon embellished his brother Danny’s pseudo-sitcom situation and created an oil-and-water twosome with memorable characters showcasing the foibles of mankind. The original Broadway production enjoyed a run of 964 performances. The story of the cohabitation of Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison translated extremely well to the silver screen, and then in 1970 to television, where it brought weekly laughs and mirth to an even larger audience for five seasons in prime time. This thorough history details The Odd Couple in all its forms over the decades. It provides capsule biographies of the stage, film and television casts and crew, as well as an episode guide and a wealth of little-known information.

Author : Susan Fehrenbacher Koprince
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570034265

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Understanding Neil Simon by Susan Fehrenbacher Koprince Pdf

Koprince (English, U. of North Dakota at Grand Forks) seeks to grant the prolific and popular playwright a measure of the serious literary attention that has passed his work by. She analyzes 16 of Simon's comedies beginning with his first Broadway effort, Blow your horn (1961) and ending with Laughter on the 23rd floor (1993). Koprince emphasizes Simon's versatility, craftsmanship, and willingness to experiment with the comedic form as well as the fundamentally serious nature of his plays. Small format: 5.25x7.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573628505

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Neil Simon's 45 Seconds from Broadway by Neil Simon Pdf

Comedy Characters: 6 male, 6 female Interior Set From America's master of Contemporary Broadway Comedy, here is another revealing comedy behind the scenes in the entertainment world, this time near the heart of the theatre district. 45 Seconds from Broadway takes place in the legendary "Polish Tea Room" on New York's 47th Street. Here Broadway theatre personalities washed-up and on-the-rise, gather to schmooz even as they lose. This touching valentine to New York

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410341327

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A Study Guide for Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Monica Silveira Cyrino
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405150323

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Big Screen Rome by Monica Silveira Cyrino Pdf

Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity. The first systematic survey of the most important and popular recent films about Roman antiquity. Shows how cinema explores, reinvents and celebrates the spectacle of ancient Rome. Films discussed in depth include Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator and Terry Jones’s Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Contributes to discussions about the ongoing relevance of the classical world. Shows how contemporary film-makers use recreations of ancient history as commentaries on contemporary society. Structured in a way that makes it suitable for course use, and features issues for discussion and analysis, and reference to further bibliographic resources. Written in an energetic and engaging style.

Author : Rick Pender
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538115879

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The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia by Rick Pender Pdf

Praise from Jesse Green, New York Times Chief Theater Critic, Arts, in the 2023 Holiday Gift Guide: “From A (the director George Abbott) to Y ('You Could Drive a Person Crazy'), The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, by Rick Pender, offers an astonishingly comprehensive look, in more than 130 entries, at the late master’s colleagues, songs, shows and methods." The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater’s most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim’s numerous collaborators, from composers and directors to designers and orchestras; key songs, such as his Academy Award winner “Sooner or Later” (Dick Tracy); and major works, including Assassins, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheim’s songs for the first time, including Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters. Featuring a detailed biographical entry for Sondheim, a chronology of his career, a listing of his many awards, and discussions of his opinions on movies, opera, and more, this wide-ranging resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498249

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf