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Neil Simon

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Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. [1]

158 relations: A Chorus Line, Academy Awards, After the Fox, American Comedy Awards, American Theater Hall of Fame, Anton Chekhov, Auteur, Autobiography, Barefoot in the Park, Barefoot in the Park (film), Ben Jonson, Billy Wilder, Biloxi Blues, Biloxi Blues (film), Brighton Beach Memoirs, Brighton Beach Memoirs (film), Broadway Bound, Broadway Bound (film), Broadway theatre, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Buster Keaton, Caesar's Hour, California Suite, California Suite (film), Carl Reiner, Cedar City, Utah, Cesare Zavattini, Chapter Two (film), Chapter Two (play), Charlie Chaplin, Clive Barnes, Come Blow Your Horn, Come Blow Your Horn (film), Comedy, Danny Simon, Detroit, DeWitt Clinton High School, Doctor of humane letters, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Letters, Drama Desk Award, Ed. Weinberger, Elaine Joyce, Emanuel Azenberg, Emmy Award, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Federico Fellini, Fools (play), George Bernard Shaw, George S. Kaufman, ..., God's Favorite, Golden Globe Award, Goodman Ace, Great Depression, Helmerich Award, Hofstra University, Honorary degree, Howard Morris, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Jake's Women, Jefferson Awards for Public Service, Jews, John Lahr, Kennedy Center Honors, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Last of the Red Hot Lovers (film), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Laurel and Hardy, Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, Little Me (musical), Little Me (novel), London Suite (play), Lost in Yonkers, Lost in Yonkers (film), Lowry Air Force Base, Mark Twain, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Marquette University, Marsha Mason, Max Dugan Returns, Max Liebman, Mel Brooks, Menander, Michael H. Simon, Molière, Murder by Death, Neil Simon Theatre, Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures, New York (state), New York City, New York Drama Critics' Circle, New York University, Nights of Cabiria, Noël Coward, Only When I Laugh (film), Outer Critics Circle Award, Playwright, Plaza Suite, Plaza Suite (film), Promises, Promises (musical), Proposals, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Repertory theatre, Richard Eder, Robert Benchley, Robert Q. Lewis, Rose's Dilemma, Rumors (play), S. J. Perelman, Screenwriter, Seems Like Old Times (film), Selma Diamond, Sholem Aleichem, Sid Caesar, Stan Daniels, Stanley (1956 TV series), Star Spangled Girl, Suzanne Bonamici, Sweet Charity, Sweet Charity (film), The Apartment, The Bronx, The Cheap Detective, The Dinner Party (play), The Garry Moore Show, The Gingerbread Lady, The Good Doctor (play), The Goodbye Girl, The Goodbye Girl (2004 film), The Goodbye Girl (musical), The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film), The Lonely Guy, The Marrying Man, The Odd Couple (film), The Odd Couple (play), The Odd Couple II, The Out-of-Towners (1970 film), The Phil Silvers Show, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Slugger's Wife, The Star-Spangled Girl, The Sunshine Boys, The Sunshine Boys (1975 film), They're Playing Our Song, Tony Award, Tulsa City-County Library, United States Army Air Forces, University of Denver, Walnut Street Theatre, Walter Kerr, Warner Bros., Washington Heights, Manhattan, Williams College, Woody Allen, Writers Guild of America Award, Your Show of Shows, 45 Seconds from Broadway. Expand index (108 more) »

A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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After the Fox

After the Fox (Caccia alla volpe) is a 1966 British–Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Peter Sellers, Victor Mature and Britt Ekland.

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American Comedy Awards

The American Comedy Awards are a group of awards presented annually in the United States recognizing performances and performers in the field of comedy, with an emphasis on television comedy and comedy films.

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American Theater Hall of Fame

The American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City was founded in 1972.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Auteur

An auteur ('author') is an artist, such as a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon.

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Barefoot in the Park (film)

Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American comedy film.

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.

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Billy Wilder

Samuel "Billy" Wilder (June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.

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Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon.

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Biloxi Blues (film)

Biloxi Blues is a 1988 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Neil Simon, and starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken.

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy.

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Brighton Beach Memoirs (film)

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, written by Neil Simon, and starring Jonathan Silverman and Blythe Danner.

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Broadway Bound

Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon.

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Broadway Bound (film)

Broadway Bound is a 1992 American made for TV comedy film directed by Paul Bogart, written by Neil Simon, and starring Corey Parker and Jonathan Silverman.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brooks Atkinson Theatre

The Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 256 West 47th Street in Manhattan.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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Caesar's Hour

Caesar's Hour is a live, hour-long American sketch-comedy television program that aired on NBC from 1954 until 1957.

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California Suite

California Suite is a 1976 play by Neil Simon.

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California Suite (film)

California Suite is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross.

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Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922)St.

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Cedar City, Utah

Cedar City is a city in Iron County, Utah, United States, south of Salt Lake City, and north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15.

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Cesare Zavattini

Cesare Zavattini (20 September 1902 – 13 October 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.

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Chapter Two (film)

Chapter Two is a 1979 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film directed by Robert Moore and produced by Ray Stark.

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Chapter Two (play)

Chapter Two is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Clive Barnes

Clive Alexander Barnes CBE (13 May 1927 – 19 November 2008) was an English writer and critic.

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Come Blow Your Horn

Come Blow Your Horn is Neil Simon's first play, which premiered on Broadway in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

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Come Blow Your Horn (film)

Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 American comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, directed by Bud Yorkin with a screenplay by Norman Lear, and based on the play of the same name by Neil Simon.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Danny Simon

Danny Simon (December 18, 1918 in New York City – July 26, 2005 in Portland, Oregon) was an American television writer and comedy teacher.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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DeWitt Clinton High School

DeWitt Clinton High School is a public high school located in The Bronx, New York, United States.

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Doctor of humane letters

The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.; or L.H.D.) is almost always conferred as an honorary degree, usually to those students who have distinguished themselves in areas other than science, government, literature or religion, which are awarded degrees of Doctor of Science, Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Letters, or Doctor of Divinity, respectively.

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Doctor of Law

Doctor of Law or Doctor of Laws is a degree in law.

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., D. Lit., or Lit. D.; Latin Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) is an academic degree, a higher doctorate which, in some countries, may be considered to be beyond the Ph.D. and equal to the Doctor of Science (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards are presented annually and were first awarded in 1955 to recognize excellence in New York theatre productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

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Ed. Weinberger

Edwin B. "Ed." Weinberger (born 1945) is an American screenwriter and television producer.

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Elaine Joyce

Elaine Joyce (born Elaine Joyce Pinchot; December 19, 1945) is an American actress.

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Emanuel Azenberg

Emanuel "Manny" Azenberg (born January 22, 1934) is an American theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are the oldest theatrical awards ceremony in the United Kingdom.

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Fools (play)

Fools is a comic fable by Neil Simon, set in the small village of Kulyenchikov, Ukraine (Russian Territory), during the late 19th century.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.

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God's Favorite

God's Favorite is a play by Neil Simon, loosely based on the Biblical Book of Job.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Goodman Ace

Goodman Ace (15 January 1899 – 25 March 1982), born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humourist, radio writer and comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Helmerich Award

The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is an American literary prize awarded by the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Hofstra University

Hofstra University is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian university in Hempstead, New York.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Howard Morris

Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American actor, voice actor and director who was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. Bass, and as "Uncle Goopy" in one of the most celebrated comedy sketches in history, on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1954).

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I Ought to Be in Pictures

I Ought to Be in Pictures is a comedy-drama play by Neil Simon, his 18th.

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Jake's Women

Jake's Women is a 1992 play by Neil Simon.

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Jefferson Awards for Public Service

The Jefferson Awards Foundation was created in 1972 by the American Institute for Public Service.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Lahr

John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr.

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Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture (although recipients do not need to be U.S. citizens).

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Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a comedy by Neil Simon.

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Last of the Red Hot Lovers (film)

Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a 1972 comedy film based on Neil Simon's play of the same name.

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a 1993 play by Neil Simon.

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.

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Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

The Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (also known as the Screen Laurel Award) is a lifetime achievement award given by the Writers Guild of America West.

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Little Me (musical)

Little Me is a musical written by Neil Simon, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.

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Little Me (novel)

Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, or simply Little Me, was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of "Belle Poitrine" (French for "Pretty Bosom").

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London Suite (play)

London Suite is a play by Neil Simon, consisting of four one-act plays.

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Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon.

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Lost in Yonkers (film)

Lost in Yonkers is a 1993 film adaptation of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, directed by Martha Coolidge.

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Lowry Air Force Base

Lowry Air Force Base (Lowry Field 1938-1948) is a former United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) training base during World War II and a United States Air Force (USAF) training base during the Cold War, serving as the initial 1955-1958 site of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is an American award for humor awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually since 1998.

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Marquette University

Marquette University is a private, coeducational Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the central United States.

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Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is an American actress and director.

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Max Dugan Returns

Max Dugan Returns is a 1983 American comedy-drama film starring Jason Robards as Max Dugan, Marsha Mason as his daughter Nora, Matthew Broderick as Nora’s son Michael, and Donald Sutherland.

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Max Liebman

Max Liebman (August 2, 1902 - July 21, 1981) was a Broadway theater and TV producer-director sometimes called the "Ziegfeld of TV", who helped establish early television's comedy vocabulary with Your Show of Shows.

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Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer.

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Menander

Menander (Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy.

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Michael H. Simon

Michael Howard Simon (born December 1, 1956) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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Murder by Death

Murder by Death is a 1976 American satirical mystery comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.

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Neil Simon Theatre

The Neil Simon Theatre, formerly the Alvin Theatre, is a Broadway venue built in 1927 and located at 250 West 52nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures

Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures (also known simply as I Ought to Be in Pictures) is a 1982 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and based on Neil Simon's play of the same name.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Drama Critics' Circle

The New York Drama Critics' Circle is made up of 19 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines and wire services based in the New York City metropolitan area.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) is a 1957 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, François Périer, and Amedeo Nazzari.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Only When I Laugh (film)

Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simon's play The Gingerbread Lady.

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Outer Critics Circle Award

The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite is a comedy play by Neil Simon.

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Plaza Suite (film)

Plaza Suite is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller.

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Promises, Promises (musical)

Promises, Promises is a musical based on the 1960 film The Apartment.

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Proposals

Proposals is a comedy-drama by Neil Simon, his 30th play.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Repertory theatre

A repertory theatre (also called repertory, rep or stock) can be a Western theatre or opera production in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation.

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Richard Eder

Richard Gray Eder (August 16, 1932 – November 21, 2014) was an American critic.

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Robert Benchley

Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor.

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Robert Q. Lewis

Robert Q. Lewis (born Robert Goldberg; April 25, 1920 – December 11, 1991) was an American radio and television personality, game show host, and actor.

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Rose's Dilemma

Rose's Dilemma is a play by Neil Simon.

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Rumors (play)

Rumors is a farcical play by Neil Simon.

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S. J. Perelman

Sidney Joseph "S.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Seems Like Old Times (film)

Seems Like Old Times is a 1980 American comedy film starring Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Charles Grodin, directed by Jay Sandrich, with Neil Simon as screenwriter.

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Selma Diamond

Selma Diamond (August 6, 1920 – May 13, 1985) was a Canadian-American comedic actress and radio and television writer, known for her high-range, raspy voice, and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC television comedy series Night Court.

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Sholem Aleichem

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and שלום־עליכם, also spelled in Yiddish; Russian and Шо́лом-Але́йхем) (– May 13, 1916), was a leading Yiddish author and playwright.

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Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor and writer, best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows, which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour, both of which influenced later generations of comedians.

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Stan Daniels

Stanley Edwin "Stan" Daniels (July 31, 1934 – April 6, 2007) was a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and director, who won eight Emmy Awards for his work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi.

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Stanley (1956 TV series)

Stanley is an American situation comedy starring Buddy Hackett, Carol Burnett, and the voice of Paul Lynde.

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Star Spangled Girl

Star Spangled Girl is a 1971 American romantic comedy film directed by Jerry Paris and based on the Neil Simon play The Star-Spangled Girl.

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Suzanne Bonamici

Suzanne Marie Bonamici (born October 14, 1954) is an American politician from Oregon.

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Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon.

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Sweet Charity (film)

Sweet Charity (full title: Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved) is a 1969 American musical comedy-drama film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and featuring music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.

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The Apartment

The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I.A.L. Diamond, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death (Columbia, 1976).

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The Dinner Party (play)

The Dinner Party is a one-act comedy written by Neil Simon, about marriage and divorce.

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The Garry Moore Show

The Garry Moore Show is the name for several separate American variety series on the CBS television network in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Gingerbread Lady

The Gingerbread Lady is a play by Neil Simon.

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The Good Doctor (play)

The Good Doctor is a comedy with music written by Neil Simon.

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The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film.

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The Goodbye Girl (2004 film)

The Goodbye Girl is a 2004 television film starring Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels.

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The Goodbye Girl (musical)

The Goodbye Girl is a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by David Zippel, and music by Marvin Hamlisch, based on Simon's original screenplay for the 1977 film of the same name.

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The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)

The Heartbreak Kid is a 1972 dark romantic comedy directed by Elaine May, written by Neil Simon, and starring Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley, Doris Roberts and Cybill Shepherd.

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The Lonely Guy

The Lonely Guy is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Steve Martin.

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The Marrying Man

The Marrying Man (known as Too Hot to Handle in the United Kingdom and Australia) is an 1991 American romantic comedy film starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.

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The Odd Couple (film)

The Odd Couple is a 1968 American comedy Technicolor film in Panavision, written by Neil Simon, based on his play of the same name, produced by Howard W. Koch and directed by Gene Saks, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

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The Odd Couple (play)

The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon.

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The Odd Couple II

The Odd Couple II is the 1998 sequel to 1968's The Odd Couple.

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The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)

The Out-of-Towners is a 1970 American comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.

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The Phil Silvers Show

The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, is a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959.

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an American black comedy play by Neil Simon, later made into a film released in 1975.

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The Slugger's Wife

The Slugger's Wife is a 1985 romantic comedy film about a baseball star who falls for a singer.

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The Star-Spangled Girl

The Star-Spangled Girl is a comedy written by Neil Simon.

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The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway in 1972 and later adapted for film and television.

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The Sunshine Boys (1975 film)

The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and produced by Ray Stark, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on the play of the same name by Neil Simon, about two legendary (and cranky) comics brought together for a reunion and revival of their famous act.

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They're Playing Our Song

They're Playing Our Song is a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tulsa City-County Library

The Tulsa City-County Library (TCCL) is the major public library system in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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University of Denver

The University of Denver (DU) is a research coeducational, four-year university in Denver, Colorado.

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Walnut Street Theatre

The Walnut Street Theatre, at 825 Walnut Street on the corner of S. 9th Street in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is said to be the oldest continuously operating theatre in the English-speaking world and the oldest in the United States.

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Walter Kerr

Walter Francis Kerr (July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theater critic.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Washington Heights, Manhattan

Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, and musician whose career spans more than six decades.

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Writers Guild of America Award

The Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievements in film, television, radio and video game (added in 2008) writing, including both fiction and non-fiction categories, have been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949.

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Your Show of Shows

Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC from February 25, 1950, through June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.

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45 Seconds from Broadway

45 Seconds from Broadway is a comedy by Neil Simon, his thirty-third.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Simon

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