Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MARRYING MAN Directed by Jerry Rees; Screenplay by Neil Simon...
...well, you know the old show-biz saying: Bad rehearsal, good show. Or, in this case, pretty good show. Like a lot of us who came of age in the late '40s and early '50s, Neil Simon obviously based his youthful fantasies about the glamorous life on newspaper reports of "playboys" (such a quaint word), who when they weren't racing fast cars spent their idle lives in pursuit of fast women. The script has about it a nice, sweet-dreaming quality, and animation director Jerry Rees, working for the first time on a feature, has invested The Marrying...
...sleight-of-hand plot, which requires the pair to keep marrying and separating, that redeems the picture. The film is so quick and busy that most of the time one forgets they are essentially no-accounts, not entirely bright or likable. Indeed, Simon's admission that they are based on historical models -- shoe magnate Harry Karl and starlet Marie ("the Body") McDonald, whose misadventures in multiple marriage titillated tabloid readers four decades ago -- renders the jolliness of his writing, and Rees' direction, all the more astonishing. They were, perhaps, a very odd couple, but not necessarily a fun couple...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Paul Dovell, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Lois Rubenstein, Jacqueline Shubitowski, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...
...Paul Simon spent his spring break on tour, playing to rave reviews from Phoenix to Worcester...