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Article: Neil Simon Gets Mark Twain Prize
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- June 14, 2006
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06-14-2006
Dateline: WASHINGTON
Neil Simon will receive the Kennedy Center's humor prize for more than four decades of Broadway hits, movies and TV shows blending the serious and the silly: "The Odd Couple," "Lost in Yonkers," "Barefoot in the Park" and dozens more.
Announcing the ninth annual winner of the Mark Twain Prize, Kennedy Center officials called Simon America's foremost playwright. He is also one of the most commercially successful.
Simon, 78, once had four plays running on Broadway at the same time. A revival of "The Odd Couple" _ which spawned a movie and TV series _ ended on Broadway only last week.
He has written more than 40 Broadway plays; more than a dozen became ...