Neil Simon
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Sep 24, 2026
JustinHOST
It was written, um, by a Pulitzer Prize, um, author.
JosephHOST
Neil Simon wrote it, wasn't it?
JustinHOST
[laughs] It possibly was, yes.
JustinHOST
Or it w- maybe it's based on one of Shakespeare's sonnets, I'm not sure.
Forrest MillerHOST
However, by 1962, they had broken up, and both went on to work on other projects.
Forrest MillerHOST
Mike Nichols went to Vancouver to direct plays, including many by Neil Simon.
Forrest MillerHOST
Directing plays led Mike Nichols to direct his first film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, after he became friends with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm loud and I'm vulgar and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster.
Maury PovichGUEST
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Maury PovichGUEST
Neil Simon, all these people-
Alex EnglishHOST
Writers row.
Sam JayHOST
[laughs]
Josh EthierGUEST
There's, you know, Quincy Jones produces the soundtrack.
Josh EthierGUEST
Neil, Neil Simon writes the screenplay.
Josh EthierGUEST
Hal Ashby is directing it, and it's such a monumentally bad movie.
Josh EthierGUEST
It's almost impossible to sit through.
Josh EthierGUEST
Um, the characters definitely read like they're in a Neil Simon play, but then you just jam them into like an '80s montage directed by a coked out Ashby, and it just, none of it works.
Josh EthierGUEST
All of it feels insane.
Josh EthierGUEST
None of it has the realism that any of his movies are known for.
Clay KellerHOST
All right.
Danelle DadiganHOST
Oh, yes.
Lorna LuftGUEST
And I got to work with Michael Bennett, and I got to work with Burt Bacharach and Hal David and Neil Simon, and I thought, "This is what ...
Lorna LuftGUEST
I worked really hard to, to do this." And I put myself, you know, through acting school, you know, after my mom passed away, and I moved to New York.
Lorna LuftGUEST
And I'm, I guess if you wanna call me a Broadway baby, yeah, that's what I wanted to do.
Lorna LuftGUEST
And I got to work with Michael Bennett.
Lorna LuftGUEST
And I got to work with Burt Bacharach and Al David and Neil Simon.
Lorna LuftGUEST
And I thought this is what I worked really hard to do this.
Lorna LuftGUEST
And I put myself, you know, through acting school, you know, after my mom passed away and I moved to New York.
Mike ParkerHOST
It's kind of not a great film, but moments because of the quality of Charles Grodin primarily.
Mike ParkerHOST
There was a film called Seems Like Old Times written by Neil Simon.
Mike ParkerHOST
Neil was kind of coming down the last legs of a brilliant writing career.
Mike ParkerHOST
Seems Like Old Times had flashes of the great brilliance of Simon as a scenarist for comedy.
Greg KnightHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Greg KnightHOST
Which is from 1978 and is based on a Neil Simon play.
Greg KnightHOST
And it has an all-star cast.
BetsyHOST
Oh, does it? Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, and Maggie Smith.
BetsyHOST
Interesting.
Greg KnightHOST
So you get California Suite from 1978.
Greg KnightHOST
Did I say it's based on a Neil Simon play?
BetsyHOST
You did say that.
Daniel J. SollyHOST
Lyrics by Hal David.
Daniel J. SollyHOST
Book by Neil Simon.
Daniel J. SollyHOST
Okay.
Daniel J. SollyHOST
And it's based on the 1960 film The Apartment.
Larry LinvilleGUEST
The museums and everything, there's so much to see and do, and so we're really taking advantage of that, and that's very pleasant.
Larry SuttonHOST
The last time you were in New York on stage, I recall, was in the Neil Simon play, I believe, right? You were a politician.
Larry SuttonHOST
Rumors.
Larry SuttonHOST
Rumors, that's the name of it right there.
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