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Neil Simon, Broadway's master of comedy, dies at 91
TampBay.cOm /AP ^ | 8/26/2018

Posted on 08/26/2018 9:17:58 AM PDT by Borges

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To: Waverunner

I have the DVD around here somewhere.


21 posted on 08/26/2018 9:58:38 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: lee martell

I maybe watched an episode or two of the new odd couple.


22 posted on 08/26/2018 9:59:26 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: Borges

Neil probably caused his share of #MeToo moments during his younger years. Like most people in Theater. Apparently, though Neil didn’t have a lot of bitter enemies left alive ready to start problems.


23 posted on 08/26/2018 10:00:18 AM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: Borges

The last of the giants. RIP.


24 posted on 08/26/2018 10:03:53 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: freedumb2003
I played Mel in our HS version of it. I hear tell I was not too bad.

To paraphrase Charles Barkley, "You were relatively not too bad. All your relatives thought you were not too bad."

lol

25 posted on 08/26/2018 10:22:46 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: dfwgator
"Back when Broadway wasn’t the bastion of faggotry it is now."

It was, they just kept it under cover... You don't think any guys got a part without smoking a pole?

26 posted on 08/26/2018 10:25:57 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: dfwgator

Unless you go with the revisionist LBGTQRSTUV history where every historical figure is gay and every piece of literature from the bible on, has been about gay people and all the characters being written about are actually gay.


27 posted on 08/26/2018 10:26:13 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Borges

A far greater loss than McCain.


28 posted on 08/26/2018 10:28:32 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Borges

R.I.P. Neil Simon, Genius of Comedy. You wrote some funny stuff.


29 posted on 08/26/2018 10:29:05 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Waverunner

The Cheap Detective is an underappreciated classic. Well, it’s cheap.


30 posted on 08/26/2018 10:29:43 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Borges
We have to say goodbye to one of our greats.

Rest in peace, Me. Simon.

31 posted on 08/26/2018 11:10:29 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) SEE MY TEXAS BIO PAGE)
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To: patriot08

me= Mr.


32 posted on 08/26/2018 11:12:04 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) SEE MY TEXAS BIO PAGE)
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To: Fightin Whitey

>>To paraphrase Charles Barkley, “You were relatively not too bad. All your relatives thought you were not too bad.”

lol<<

That’s pretty good :)


33 posted on 08/26/2018 11:12:14 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Borges

When comedy wasn’t drowning in politics, and was what “comedy” was supposed to be...funny.

RIP Neil Simon, a really funny man.


34 posted on 08/26/2018 11:28:49 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: freedumb2003
That’s pretty good :)

Relatively speaking, right?

I saw a clip of Barkley goofing with some fans. Some kid was teasing him a little, he was tall, Barkley asked if he played ball himself. Kid said, yeah, he was hoping to play college ball.

Barkley said, Yeah, well, you've got the build. Good shape. And you're relatively good-looking too...yeah, yeah, you know what that means, don't you? All your relatives think you are good looking!

35 posted on 08/26/2018 11:37:33 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: freedumb2003; DeFault User
>>Among the greats should be listed “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”, the only one of his plays I saw on Broadway.<<

I saw his "Come Blow Your Horn" on the pre-Broadway run in Washington DC. Hilarious. I still remember one of the scenes vividly 55 years later. The protagonist's smothering mother was martyring herself about something and said, "All right then, I'm leaving — dragging my fur coat behind me," and actually dragged a beautiful full-length fur coat across the stage.

36 posted on 08/26/2018 4:37:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: b4me
i always get him and neil diamond mixed up

I liked him best when he was still with Garfunkel.

37 posted on 08/26/2018 4:42:56 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: Borges
That escaped me. Thank you for posting it. Barbara Harris was brilliant. One of her underrated roles was in The Apple Tree with Alan Alda and Larry Blyden. Kristen Chenoweth played the part in the revival.
38 posted on 08/26/2018 9:50:22 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Borges
I have a few Neil Simon stories. When the late Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager were "in a relationship", Neil Simon was at their place one day and said kind of offhandedly, "Your relationship would make a great musical." Before they could say no, he added, "I'll write the book" (the non-musical script.) That musical was They're Playing Our Song. It had a modestly successful Broadway run.
39 posted on 08/26/2018 9:53:17 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Borges

For a time, Simon lived in LA because several of his plays were being made into movies. Like most dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, he found LA, shall we say, a bit boring. “There are no people on the streets”, he once complained. He also is quoted as saying that “there are 87 interesting people in Los Angeles.”

Simon said he used to go over to Westwood, where UCLA is located, to stand in the movie lines — not to see the movies, but to feel the press of people around him. It made a New Yorker feel more at home.


40 posted on 08/26/2018 9:54:35 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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