Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces...
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investor S. J. Perelman (1904–1979), American humorist, author, and screenwriter Sean Kanan (b. 1966 as Sean Perelman), American actor Vadim Perelman (b. 1963)...
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Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: Григорий Яковлевич Перельман, IPA: [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪtɕ pʲɪrʲɪlʲˈman] ; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician...
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Ronald Owen Perelman (/ˈpɛrəlmən/; born January 1, 1943) is an American banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated...
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Yorker; he was inspired by the tradition of New Yorker humorists S. J. Perelman, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley, and Max Shulman, whose material he modernized...
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Korine's favorite writers were listed as the humorists James Thurber and S. J. Perelman, as well as the Southern Gothic novelist Flannery O'Connor. He also...
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Horse Feathers (category Films produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz)
Thelma Todd and David Landau. It was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S. J. Perelman, and Will B. Johnstone. Kalmar and Ruby also wrote the original songs...
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Monkey Business (1931 film) (category Films produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz)
and Ruth Hall. It is directed by Norman Z. McLeod with screenplay by S. J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone. Much of the story takes place on an ocean liner...
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Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J. Perelman, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne, Robert Bolt, Harold Pinter, David Mamet...
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with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the 1885 novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey...
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flow, Grigori Perelman was able to modify and complete Hamilton's program. In papers posted to the arXiv repository in 2002 and 2003, Perelman presented his...
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(although they would reconcile). Parker met S. J. Perelman at a party in 1932 and, despite a rocky start (Perelman called it "a scarifying ordeal"), they remained...
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Tugwell, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Charles MacArthur, Darryl F. Zanuck, S. J. Perelman, Carole Lombard, and Eddie Cantor. Mank was officially announced in...
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American comedy film directed by Leslie Fenton and written by S. J. Perelman, Laura Perelman and Marion Parsonnet. The film stars Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson...
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often includes feghoots in his strip Pearls Before Swine. Humorist S. J. Perelman often contrived elaborate feghoots. His piece "Abby, This Is Your Father"...
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Smith and produced by Philip D'Antoni and Norman Baer, with a script by S. J. Perelman and Lou Solomon. The 58 minute film featured Elizabeth Taylor on location...
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List of comedians (section J)
Mathews Jeremy Lloyd David Nobbs Simon Nye Frank Muir Denis Norden S. J. Perelman Jimmy Perry David Renwick Jack Rosenthal David Sedaris Gerardo Sofovich...
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play by S. J. Perelman. After the success of "Malice in Wonderland," a 1959 episode of the Omnibus television series based on S. J. Perelman's New Yorker...
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same name by Jules Verne, was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and S.J. Perelman. The music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm...
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based on the 1943 Broadway musical of the same name, book written by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash, with music composed by Kurt Weill (lyrics by Nash)....
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Mary Chapin Carpenter '81; humorist and Marx Brothers screenwriter S. J. Perelman '25; novelists Nathanael West '24, Jeffrey Eugenides '83, Edwidge Danticat...
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Godot and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. In the United States, S. J. Perelman (1904–1979) has been identified as the first surrealist humour writer...
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comedy version of Aladdin was written especially for U.S. television, with a book by S. J. Perelman and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. A London stage production...
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List of 20th-century writers (section I-J)
Pearson Harvey Pekar Sharon Kay Penman Walker Percy Georges Perec S. J. Perelman Pauline Periwinkle Charlotte Perkins Gilman Anne Perry Fernando Pessoa...
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for the agency's early group of clients, including Arthur Koestler, S. J. Perelman, Rebecca West and Tom Wolfe. Kavanagh was married to, and was the literary...
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Palin to graduate. Inspired particularly by the American humourist S. J. Perelman, Kington began his writing career at the satirical magazine Punch, where...
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Broadway musical One Touch of Venus and collaborated with the librettist S. J. Perelman and the composer Kurt Weill. The show included the notable song "Speak...
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his lyrics and then went at surreal tangents in the style of Cook and S. J. Perelman. Cook appeared at the first three fund-raising galas staged by Cleese...
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Micallef was influenced by the Goons, Peter Sellers, Marx Brothers, S. J. Perelman, James Thurber, Spike Milligan, Barry Humphries, Frank Muir, Monty Python...
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London, first as Aladdin in a stage show of the same name written by S. J. Perelman and Cole Porter and then in the first London production of the musical...
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