Aug
31
2018
‘Someday you’re going to write a great play. This isn’t it.’—Encouragement to Neil Simon early in his career
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWhen Neil Simon was 31 years old and had yet seen a play of his produced, he was called into a meeting with Max Gordon, who was “the archetypical cigar-smoking Broadway producer” known for producing many Kaufman-and-Hart classic comedies. This is how Simon, in his book Rewrite, recounted the story of meeting Gordon around 1960: […]
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