Word: simonal
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...ever saw him play, and none of us have ever known an America where one man could give every American something to believe in. There is no one in public life today for whom anyone will ever sing, "a nation turns its lonely eyes to you," as Paul Simon sang in 1968 to DiMaggio...
Doyle's claim to fame was the hand-held game Merlin, which he invented in the 1970s. Merlin, an electronic game similar to Simon, was marketed by Parket Brothers and featured on the cover of Newsweek when it debuted in 1978. About 5 million were sold, according to Doyle...
...next big thing, but the question has arisen of who really wrote Shakespeare in Love. The London press pointed out last week that the screenplay of that very palpable hit has remarkable similarities to the plot of No Bed for Bacon, a 1941 novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon. A spokesman for Miramax, the film's distributor, could only respond, "Nothing is truly original. Shakespeare borrowed and adapted plots himself." To borrow (a bad habit) from T.S. Eliot, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal...
Last semester, Rogoff was a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He was a 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow...
...popular and Tony-award-winning musicals go, Ragtime is about as innovative as Broadway can get. Paul Simon's The Capeman was eclectic, but failed miserably in ticket sales. Rent, on the other hand, is praised for being original, but still flaunts enough crowd-pleasing values (love despite adversity, carpe diem) to insure huge financial success. To succeed on the Great White Way, a show does not always have to sacrifice controversy, but it usually does have to put it in a prettily-packaged manner that will draw enough theatergoers to pay the bills--and make a gargantuan profit besides...