Neil Simon
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Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and author.
He wrote more than 30 plays and a similar number of movie screenplays, mainly adaptations of his plays.
He received more total Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer, as well as his parents' financial challenges affecting their marriage, giving him a predominantly unhappy and turbulent childhood.
He often took refuge in movie theaters where he loved watching old comedians like Charlie Chaplin.
He began writing comedies for radio and some of the oldest television shows after graduating from high school and a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve.
They included Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he collaborated with other young writers, including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, and Selma Diamond) and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. He began writing his own plays with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 shows on Broadway.
Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), which earned a Tony Award, followed it.
It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." He wrote both original screenplays and stage plays from the 1960s to 1980s, with some films based on his plays.
His style spanned romance to farce to more serious dramatic comedy.
He received 17 Tony nominations and three of them, winning three of them.
He appeared in four successful plays on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 he became the first living playwright to have a New York theatre named in his honor.
Early years
Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, in The Bronx, New York City, to Jewish parents. Irving Simon, a garment salesman, and his mother, Mamie (Levy) Simon, was mainly a homemaker. Neil Simon, a seven-year-old brother, was his senior, television writer, and comedy instructor Danny Simon. He grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School when he was 16 years old. He was described as 'Doc' by the school yearbook, and he was described as extremely shy.: 39
Simon's childhood was marked by his parents' "tempestuous union" and the financial hardship wrought by the Depression. 1 — Often at night, he would have stuffed out their arguments by putting a pillow over their ears. His father would often leave the family for months at a time, causing their financial and emotional problems. As a result, the family took in boarders, and Simon and his brother Danny were often forced to live with different relatives.: 2
Simon said in an interview with writer Lawrence Grobel: "I never knew what the reason for all the wars and conflicts were about between the two of them... she'd hate him and be very angry, but he'd come back and take him back." She adored him. "I'd better start taking care of myself somehow," 378 Simon said. It made me feel confident as an outsider.: 378
In the work of actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy, he was able to do so at the theater. "I was constantly being pulled out of theaters for being too loud." Simon said these childhood films were his inspiration: "I wanted to make a whole audience fall to the ground, writhing and yelling so hard that some of them will pass out." 1: He made writing comedy his long-term goal, but also saw it as a way to connect with others. "I was never going to be a celebrity or a doctor." 379: "When he was still in high school, he began writing for pay: Simon and his brother created a series of comedies for employees at an annual department store festival." He spent three days a week at the library reading books by well-known humorists such as Mark Twain, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and S. J. To help improve his writing skills, he devoted three days a week reading books by famous humorists such as Mark Twain, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman and S. J. Perpetuman is a fictional character from "The Perpetual Man.": 218
He joined the Army Air Force Reserve at New York University right after graduating from high school. He attained the rank of corporal and was eventually transferred to Colorado. Simon began as a sports editor during those years in reserve, beginning as a reserve editor. He was sent to Lowry Air Force Base in 1945 and attended the University of Denver from 1945 to 1946. 2
Personal life
Simon has been married five times. He was married to Joan Baim, a Martha Graham dancer, and had two children, Nancy and Ellen, with her. In 1973, Simon became a widower after Baim died of bone cancer at the age of 41. Ellen was 16 years old and Nancy just 10, when they lost their mother. Marsha Mason (1973–1983), actress Diane Lander in two separate marriages (1988–1988, 1990–1998), and actress Elaine Joyce (1999–2018). He was also the father of Bryn, Lander's daughter from a previous marriage, whom he adopted.
Simon's nephew is U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon, and his niece-in-law Suzanne Bonamici is a member of the United States Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici.
Simon was one of the selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.
Simon received a kidney transplant from his long-time companion and publicist Bill Evans in 2004.
On August 26, 2018, Neil Simon died of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, while hospitalized for kidney disease. He was 91 and had Alzheimer's disease as well.
Writing career
Simon resigned from his career as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon, who was also a writer for CBS under the tutelage of radio humorist Goodman Ace. Other writing jobs followed after they worked on the radio show The Robert Q. Lewis Show. Max Liebman recruited the pair for the writing team of his famous television comedy series Your Show of Shows. In 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, and 1954, the program received Emmy Award nominations for Best Variety Show, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, and 1954, and 1954. Simon later wrote scripts for The Phil Silvers Show, which were broadcast between 1958 and 1959.
"I later remembered the benefits of these two writing careers to his career," Simon said. "I spent five years and learned more about what I was going to do than in any other previous experience." "I knew as I stepped into Your Show of Shows that this was the most talented group of writers ever assembled together until that time."
Simon outlined a typical writing session: "Understands," Simon wrote about a writing session.
On the 23rd Floor (1993), Simon incorporated some of these experiences into his performance Laughter. He received two Emmy Award nominations for his 2001 TV adaptation of the play.
Catch a Star was his first Broadway appearance. (1955): He collaborated on sketches with his brother Danny, who made them.
Come Blow Your Horn, Simon's first Broadway play, opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in 1961. Simon took three years to produce the first play, partially because he was also working on television scripts. He rewrote it at least twenty times from start to end: 384 "It was the lack of confidence in myself," he said. "This isn't good enough," I said. It's not right.' ... It was the equivalent of three years of college. 384 That performance was also a "monumental effort" for Simon, and it was a turning point in his career: "The theater and I discovered each other" together.": 3
According to Susan Koprince, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he received a Tony Award, made him national fame, and he was dubbed "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." Those triumphs were followed by others. During 1966, Simon had four shows in Broadway theatres: Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple, and Barefoot in the Park. These earned him royalties of $1 million a year. Emanuel Azenberg's career began with The Sunshine Boys, God's Favorite, Chapter Two, I Ought to Be In Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, Jake's Women, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor were among others. His work ranged from romantic comedies to serious drama. He received seventeen Tony nominations and three other accolades in total.
In addition, Simon adapted content from Patrick Dennis' book The Apartment (1961), based on Patrick Dennis' book "Avatar (1957), based on Federico Fellini's book "The Apartment; Sweet Charity (1966) a musical version of Billy Wilder's film The Apartment; and Promises, Promises (1968) a musical adaptation of Billy Wilder's film, The Apartment. Simon was reportedly earning $45,000 a week from his shows by the time of Last of the Red Hot Lovers in 1969 (excluding sales of rights), making him the most financially successful Broadway writer ever. Simon also worked as an uncredited "script doctor" on Broadway-bound plays or musicals under construction, as he did for A Chorus Line (1975). He produced a number of hit plays during the 1970s, some of whom were playing at the same time to standing room only audiences. Despite being regarded as one of the country's best playwrights by then, his inner drive kept him writing:
Simon drew "extensively on his own life and experience" for his stories. His communities are mainly working-class New York City ones, similar to those in which he grew up. He began writing Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), the first of three autobiographical plays, and Broadway Bound (1986). He received his highest critical acclaim for this trilogy. He was given a Pulitzer Prize for his sequel, Lost in Yonkers (1991), which starred Mercedes Ruehl and was a hit on Broadway.
Simon's next four performances in Yonkers after Lost, did not have commercial success. The Dinner Party (2000), which starred Henry Winkler and John Ritter, was "a modest success." Rose's Dilemma, Simon's last play, premiered in 2003 and attracted negative feedback.
Simon has been described as a playwright and contributing writer to at least 49 Broadway plays.
Simon didn't bother to write the screenplay for his first film adaptation of his work, Come Blow Your Horn (1963), preferring to concentrate on his playwriting. However, he was dissatisfied with the photograph and sought to control the changes. Simon wrote screenplays for more than 20 films and earned four Academy Award nominations—for The Odd Couple (1969), The Sunshine Boys (1975) and The California Suite (1978). The Out-of-Townowners (1970) and Murder by Death (1976) are two other films. Although the majority of his films were commercial, his films were still of secondary importance to his performances: 372
Several of his older adaptations of his own plays were very similar to the original scripts. "I really didn't have an interest in films then," Simon said in hindsight: "I really didn't have an interest in films." I was mainly interested in writing for the theater. The performances never became cinematic. 153 This Odd Couple (1968), was one of the first successful early adaptations, but it also opened out with more scenic variety.