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	Neil Simon - MSN Encarta
		Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon on July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is an American playwright and screenwriter.
		Neil Simon, born in 1927, American playwright, and winner of two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.
		Simon was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
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	American Masters . Neil Simon \| PBS
		With these plays, Simon found his greatest critical acclaim, and for his 1991 follow-up, "Lost in Yonkers," Simon was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
		Neil Simon has for almost forty years invigorated the stage with touching stories and zany characters, but possibly his greatest contribution has been the ability to create humor from the lives and troubles of everyday people.
		Of Simon, actor Jack Lemon said, "Neil has the ability to write characters -- even the leading characters that we’re supposed to root for -- that are absolutely flawed.
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	Neil Simon - FREE Neil Simon Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Rationalizing the "decentered" white male in Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
		Odd couple; Neil Simon has tried to be a major force in film.
		Early years Marvin Neil Simon was born in the Bronx, in New York, on...
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	washingtonpost.com: How Neil Simon Remade the Maid
		The greatest departure from the world of Simon as it has hitherto been known, however, is the central character, Clemma, a fortyish fl housekeeper and cook who serves as the play's narrator even as she struggles to bring a little order into her own romantic affairs.
		Simon has never written a major fl role before — the cop in "Rumors" and the nurse in "The Sunshine Boys" are both minor figures and, arguably, not all that fl.
		Neil seemed to be interested in who she was, not just who she was in relationship to the people she works for.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/arts/simon.htm (2457 words)

	Neil Simon Festival: Neil Simon Bio
		Marvin Neil Simon was born in 1927, in the Bronx, New York.
		Neil Simon's early plays were hugely successful at the box office, but not so with some critics, who said his one-liners outweighed the development of character and plot.
		Neil Simon was again acknowledged that year when a Broadway theatre was given his name.
	www.simonfest.org /simon.html (400 words)

	Neil Simon Theatre
		The Neil Simon Theatre is located on the south side of 52nd Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue.
		The Alvin Theatre (later renamed to the Neil Simon Theatre) was opened in 1927 and named for Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley who produced a string of hits such as Lady Be Good, Tip Toes and Oh Kay with scores by George and Ira Gershwin.
		Neil Simon had back to back productions at the theatre in the 1980’s and the Neil Simon Theatre is now part of the Nederlander Organization.
	www.nytix.com /Links/Broadway/Theaters/neilsimon.html (532 words)

	For Neil Simon, Great Reviews - washingtonpost.com
		Lucie Arnaz, who appeared in two Simon plays on Broadway and met her husband, Laurence Luckinbill, when he was appearing in a third, mentioned that she named her first child Simon.
		Simon was typically modest, and visibly nervous, in accepting the award.
		Simon, in a brief conversation on the red carpet, confirmed that the rewrite lore is true.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101501263_pf.html (1011 words)

	Neil Simon Biography Summary
		Neil Simon is a master of comedy and one of the most popular dramatists in the history of the American theater.
		Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a American playwright and screenwriter.
		Neil Simon, one of America's most successful playwrights, has been chosen as this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center announced yesterday.
	www.bookrags.com /Neil_Simon (695 words)

	Neil Simon Tribute
		To say opening nights for Neil are nerve-wracking would be a gross understatement, and anyone who has experienced one with him knows this all too well.
		When Neil left D.C. to gain some distance from the play, I began a ritual of calling him every other day to ask him if it would be okay to make slight adjustments to a scene here, a line there.
		I did this in such a calculatedly slow and gradual manner that not until the first preview in New York did Neil realize that I had successfully cut 15 lines of his dialogue from ACT I. I cannot begin to describe the torrent of expletives Neil leveled in my direction backstage.
	www.drivingmrspacey.com /NeilSimon.htm (518 words)

	Neil Simon's Storied Career, Another Honor For One Of America's Most Prolific Playwrights - CBS News
		Neil Simon was recently given the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for Humor.
		Neil Simon is one of the most prolific playwrights of the modern era.
		Simon, whose full name is Marvin Neil Simon, was born in 1927 and grew up in the Bronx.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/10/29/sunday/main2135658.shtml (671 words)

	PAL: Neil Simon (1927- )
		Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927 in Bronx, New York (Geitner 252) to a garment salesman (253) named Irving and his wife Mamie (252).
		The 1980's also proved to be productive years for Simon, beginning with I Ought to Be in Pictures in 1980 about a nineteen-year old girl who tries to make a relationship with the father who had left her mother when she was a little girl (261).
		Simon's next project was a comedy called Rumors and it was followed by Lost in Yonkers (376).
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap8/simon.html (1605 words)

	Neil Simon \| St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture \| Find Articles at BNET
		With plays that both bespeak and laugh at the human condition, Neil Simon is one of the world's best-loved playwrights and a fixture of American popular culture.
		Born Marvin Neil Simon in the Bronx,; New York on July 4, 1927,; America's greatest living comedic playwright was raised in a troubled Depression-era household, which would ultimately provide the inspiration for much of his future work.
		However, despite this string of successes, Simon continued to be attacked by the critics for his glib comedy and commercialism.
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	Neil Simon - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - The New York Times
		Simon's first script written directly for the screen was After the Fox (1966), an uneven "international" comedy suffering from too many cooks (including star Peter Sellers and director Vittorio de Sica).
		Simon's next movie original, The Out of Towners (1969), was far more successful both financially and artistically.
		However, in the final analysis, Simon has hit the mark far more often than not -- in addition to his Pulitzer Prize for the 1991 play Lost in Yonkers, his scripts for The Odd Couple (1968), The Goodbye Girl (1977), and California Suite (1978) have been honored with Academy Awards.
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	University of Delaware: RICHARD HOFFMAN NEIL SIMON COLLECTION
		The American playwright Neil Simon was born July 4, 1927, in the Bronx, New York.
		Simon is praised by critics as a formidably funny playwright, but his autobiographical trilogy, Brighton Beach Memoirs (1982), Biloxi Blues (1984), and Broadway Bound (1986), earned him respect as a serious dramatist.
		Simon was honored with the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1983 for Brighton Beach Memoirs and with a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, for Lost in Yonkers.
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	CNN.com - Neil Simon receives kidney transplant - report - Mar. 3, 2004
		Playwright Neil Simon has received a kidney transplant courtesy of his friend and longtime press representative.
		Simon and Bill Evans were recovering at a New York hospital after the surgery Tuesday, Simon's wife, Elaine Simon, told the New York Times for Wednesday editions.
		Simon told the Times shortly before the operation that he and Evans had been friends for 25 years.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/03/03/simon.kidney.ap (218 words)

	Neil Simon's falling out with Mary Tyler Moore - Roses's Dilemma - Culture Business
		Stung by his parents’ anger, Stan (read: Danny Simon) insists that the characters were composites of family members and of everyone from the ’hood.
		But here’s the thing about Neil Simon: When Come Blow Your Horn opened in 1961, the golden age of Broadway already was over and the musical was in eclipse.
		Simon, who honed his comedic skills in the take-no-prisoners service of Sid Caesar and Phil Silvers, kept churning out the hits, thinly veiled stage fictions about his marriages, his divorces, his family, even his brother’s friends.
	nymag.com /nymetro/arts/columns/culturebusiness/n_9651 (1167 words)

	Neil Simon Theatre - The Official Website - Ticketmaster is the authorized ticket service for this theatre
		It was renamed in 1983 to honor America’s most prolific playwright, Neil Simon, following the successful engagement of Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first play of an autobiographical trilogy about his youth with his family.
		Since 2000, the Neil Simon has been filled with music and dancing as the home to two of Broadway’s most popular productions, namely the acclaimed revival of The Music Man and, currently, the Tony Award®-winning Best Musical, Hairspray.
		The Neil Simon Theatre has 1,445 seats and is one of The Nederlander Organization’s nine Broadway theatres.
	neilsimontheatre.com (160 words)

	The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon
		At once an homage to the history of comic theatre and a tribute to the performers who make it so memorable, Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys is frequently a showcase for older actors who carry with them their own slice of the past.
		It has also been tweaked to relocate it from Simon’s New York to contemporary London, where the old pros reminisce about and represent an almost vanished but still remembered world of variety entertainment, the most recent proponents of which still appear on TV from time to time.
		Simon’s skill with words has made him among the best known playwrights of the twentieth century and his dialogue sparkles through almost any slips in performance or direction.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/SunshineBoys.htm (1001 words)

	2003 Season: Neil Simon - Eclipse Theatre Chicago
		Neil Simon is the world's most successful playwright.
		By 1973, Simon was a major voice in contemporary comedy.
		Of Simon, the late legendary actor Jack Lemmon said, "Neil has the ability to write characters -- even the leading characters that we're supposed to root for -- that are absolutely flawed.
	www.eclipsetheatre.com /season/2003 (390 words)

	Neil Simon Tenor and Classical Guitarist
		Neil trained as a tenor with the ENO Baylis programme directed by Mary King and studied singing with tenor John Mitchinson.
		Neil's Classical Guitar studies were with Timothy Walker, Carlos Bonell and Eleftheria Kotzia and he also appeared in masterclasses with Ben Verdery, John Mills and Paolo Bellinati at the Classical Guitar Festival of Great Britain.
		Neil Will be shortly performing at Hanbury Manor, Hatfield House and Bellini's Old Welwyn.
	www.neilsimon.biz /index.html (171 words)

	Neil Simon Filmography
		Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon made one of his periodic forays into serious themes with the drama The Gingerbread Lady, and while this screen adaptation adds a bit more wit to the proceedings, it remains a change of pace from his usual breezy comedies.
		Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie.
		Synopsis: As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote).
	www.fandango.com /neilsimon/filmography/p111573 (2616 words)

	Beggars Banquet Records - artists - Biffy Clyro
		The seeds were sown back in the mid-’90s, when school friends Simon Neil and Ben Johnston got their first guitar and drums respectively.
		Their first gig, supporting local heroes Pink Kross at a youth centre, was followed by a move to Glasgow, ostensibly to study audio engineering (Ben and James) and electronics in music (Simon), but in truth it was to avoid getting a job so they could concentrate on the band full-time.
		Formed by singer/guitarist Neil and drummer Ben Johnston in the mid-1990's while in their mid-teens, Biffy Clyro's formative years were a trial-by-fire apprenticeship that saw them quickly move on from their Nirvana + Guns N' Roses fixation and a brief period as Screwfish.
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	Amazon.ca: The Play Goes On : A Memoir: Books: Neil Simon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neil Simon is best studied by reading and seeing interpretations of his plays, but since this book is an autobiography, it is interesting at the very least for seeing what the man's own perspective on his life has been.
		Simon to the fact that Marsha was in the process of redefining her goals, taking charge of her life, and might do the same regarding their marriage.
		Neil Simon, aside from being a prolific playwright, is also a fascinating subject for a memoir.
	www.amazon.ca /Play-Goes-Memoir-Neil-Simon/dp/0684846918 (1779 words)

	Neil Simon honored with Mark Twain Prize - Boston.com
		Neil Simon can now add the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to his extensive list of honors.
		Simon, who has written more than 40 Broadway plays, has also won three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe and a Pulitzer -- for 1991's "Lost in Yonkers." More than a dozen of his plays became movies, with four earning Academy Award nominations.
		Simon is notorious for his incessant rewriting and editing.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/10/16/neil_simon_honored_with_mark_twain_prize (290 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Neil Simon is Twain-ed
		Neil Simon has written some of the funniest plays of all time, but he can't really tell you how he does it.
		Simon even says he isn't really going for laughs when he writes.
		And Simon recently received the latest in a long list of awards — he was given the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center in ceremonies that will be telecast tonight at 8 p.m.
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	Rewrites: A Memoir - Neil Simon - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this memoir, Simon tells of the painful discord he endured at home as a child, and, subsequently, his struggles in his teens and early 20s to hone his craft as a writer.
		Neil the writer can be all too easygoing, and as for Neil the person...well, let's just say he has a darker side.
		Simon has an uncanny ability to connect with other people's lives through the exploration of his own, and he seems always to have understood that the autobiographical is meant to be a pathway to the universal rather than mere absorption in the personal...." -- Jonathan Yardley
	www.biblio.com /books/101413512.html (534 words)

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