California Suite Page #15

Synopsis: Four totally different and separate stories of guests staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Maggie Smith and Michael Caine come from England to attend the Oscars; Jane Fonda comes from New York, Alan Alda is her ex who lives in California; in the slapstick part Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and their wives come to the hotel to relax and play tennis, only to find there is only one room vacant; in the fourth segment Walter Matthau arrives a day before his wife for his nephew's Bar Mitzvah while his brother (Herb Edelman) sends a prostitute to his room.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Herbert Ross
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
PG
Year:
1978
103 min
1,739 Views


Sigmund Wednetski, producer.

Directed by Litweil

Zumbredowicz and Stefan Vlech.

Mmm.

I thought they would.

What was the best picture?

The best picture? You were

there when they announced it.

It came after the best actress.

I was in a deep depression

at the time.

What was the best

bloody picture?

Do you mean what was

the best picture of the year,

or what did those idiots pick

as the best picture of the year?

What won the award, you a**hole?

I am not an a**hole.

Don't you call me that.

Sidney, I have just thrown up

on some of the best

people in Hollywood.

Now is no time to be sensitive.

What was the best picture?

- I'm not telling you.

- I'm not asking you.

I'm threatening you, you crud!

- Now I'm definitely not going to tell you.

- I'm sorry.

I take it back, Sidney.

You're not a crud.

God! Definitely.

Am I still an a**hole?

Then I'm never going to tell you.

You behaved abominably tonight.

- Did not. Did not. A**hole crud!

- Abominably. Abominably.

I am going to bed. We have a 10:00 am

plane to catch in the morning.

10:
00 am is the morning.

That is redundant,

you a-h.

Oh, do you think I don't know

what you're saying?

I can spell, you know.

Not without moving

your lips, you can't.

I would like

another drink, please.

You drank everything

in this state. Try Nevada.

Oh, Sidney!

I saw your privates.

You were right.

We should never have come here.

Have you ever seen a greater

assemblage of hypocrites

under one roof in all your life?

Were the hypocrites there?

Why didn't you

point them out to me?

Hypocritical hypocrites.

They love you and Fawn over you

on the way in.

And if you're a loser

when you come out,

it's "too bad, darling.

Give us a call

when you're back in town."

You should have thrown up over

the whole bloody lot of them.

- Sidney?

- Yes?

Was I hit by a bus?

I look as though I was hit by a

fully-loaded, guided tour bus.

Did you notice how quickly

the winners got their cars?

They must have known beforehand

who the winners were going to be

in order for the winners to get

their cars before everyone else.

We've come 6,000 miles for this bloody

affair, and they park our car in Vancouver.

I've aged, Sidney.

I'm getting lines in my face.

I look like a brand-new,

steel-belted radial tire.

Even Litweil zumbredowicz and Stefan

Vlech got their cars before we did.

And then, those little twerps,

they splashed water all over

my trousers as they drove by.

I'm hungry.

- What are you doing?

- I'm phoning room service.

I want some eggs Benedict.

Hello?

Eggs Benedict, please.

You have to ask

for room service first, twit.

Room service, please.

- Twit and a half.

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. He began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. more…

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