In his critically acclaimed Rewrites, Simon wrote about his beginnings -- growing up with longing, the early years of working in television, his first The Play Goes on: Just as Neil Simon's plays do not fit easily into the space of one act, his memoirs too demand a continuation, a second act, which this book provides.
In his critically acclaimed Rewrites, Simon wrote about his beginnings -- growing up with longing, the early years of working in television, his first real love, his first play, his first success, his first brush with failure, and, most moving of all, his first great loss. The same willingness to open his heart to the reader is here in The Play Goes On as he continues the story, beginning where the earlier book left off, with the days immediately following the death of his beloved wife, Joan.
From that moment of almost unbearable sadness, Simon moved quickly to work on another play, clearly an effort to keep himself busy and his mind off his loss.
The work was therapeutic indeed, although perhaps more significant was the young actress who had a role in his play. Her name was Marsha Mason, and almost immediately a bond developed between her and Simon. That bond became a relationship and the relationship became a marriage. In Neil Simon's life, this was clearly the beginning of Act Two.
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There was a change of scenery shortly after this new start. When Mason's career required that she be in Hollywood, Simon and his two daughters from his first marriage moved there as well, and although there are few playwrights more closely identified with New York City than Neil Simon, he soon found himself at home in California -- or at least as much as he would ever be in a place with neither winters nor subways.
Over the next several years, there were the perhaps inevitable shifts of life -- the marriage to Marsha Mason foundered, followed by a period of questioning, followed by a chance department store encounter with a young actress who eventually became the next Mrs. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Please follow the detailed Help center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders. Rewrites takes Simon through his first love, his first play, and his first brush with failure. He describes his marriage to his beloved wife, Joan, and writes lucidly about the pain of losing her to cancer.
Now, with the whole story in one place, he traces the history of modern entertainment over the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of a man who started life the son of a garment salesman and became the greatest—and most successful—American playwright of all time. The Rise and Fall They're Playing Our Song: But while her professional life was filled with success and fascinating people, her personal life was far more difficult and dramatic.
A winning combination of touching personal memories and reflections, anecdotes about the writing life, and hilarious stories about some of the biggest names in the entertainment business, "Rewrites" is "one wonderful read" Larry King, USA Today.
The Play Goes On by Neil Simon
His plays and movies have kept us laughing for four decades, but even more than the humor, it is the humanity of Neil Simon's vision that has made him America's most-loved playwright. Now, the author of such hilarious and heartwarming plays as Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, and The Goodbye Girl gives readers his memoir—a funny, touching biography filled with the details of his writing life and rich with the experiences that underlie his work.
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