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Synopsis: Rich playboy Charley Pearl meets Vicki Anderson, singer at a nightclub in Las Vegas. But she's a gangster's-moll, Bugsy Siegel's, and when he finds the two of them in bed, he forces them to marry each other. Charley was going to marry his girlfriend but when she finds out about him and Vicki, she leaves him. And Vicki doesn't seem to be his kind of woman at all...
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Director(s): Jerry Rees
Production: Hollywood Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
10%
R
Year:
1991
115 min
281 Views


How am I going to

control you, Charley?

You can't.

But Adele, she can

make me do handstands.

There are two things in this

world that matter to me.

My daughter and my studio.

You hurt my studio

and I kill you.

You hurt my daughter...

and you'll pray

for me to kill you.

Don't give it a thought, sir.

I'm not a praying man.

Okay, two days later

we were headed for what was then...

just a little dusty town

called Las Vegas.

We were throwing Charley

a bachelor party.

A three-day orgy at the

Pick-A-Daisy Ranch...

where all the Daisys

wore D-cups.

"She loves me, she loves me not"

was the house game.

By the time Charley

went on his honeymoon...

we'd have Adele carrying

him across the threshold.

Did I tell you clowns Esther

Williams likes one of my songs?

Hey, that's terrific!

- MGM wants her to sing it

in her next picture.

- Where, underwater?

Shut up, you.

What song?

D Haven't we met before

Haven't we met before dd

Wait a minute. That's my song.

You promised that to me.

So now I promised MGM.

Since when does friendship

come before career?

You little sh*t. In two years

I'll be MGM's hottest star.

Esther Williams will do a

backstroke in my bathtub to

get me in one ofher pictures.

And you will kiss my ass

before I do one of your songs.

I'll kiss it now.

I'm not proud. Bend over.

You can't do no Esther Williams

picture. You can't swim.

- How do you know?

- You never go near the water

because you wear the toupee.

I wear a toupee, you fuckhead?

You know, I love this guy.

- He manages the worst

baseball team in the minors.

- I'm sorry?

Finishes last

three years in a row.

- Four!

- Four years in a row!

Now he knows everything

about show business.

I know umpires making

- better rugs on their heads.

- Mr. Pineapple Head.

- Pineapple head?

- Can I say something, George?

You're very boring.

You want to hang out with us,

get snappier dialogue.

I don't hear Charley coming

up with any snappier dialogue.

- That's different. Charley's rich.

- Hey, hey!

I don't mind if Charley bores us.

Is this fun?

Is this the best time

you ever had in your life?

Going to Vegas with three-and-a-half

funny guys who treat you like an equal.

We pretend that we

enjoy your company.

Why do we treat you...

like an equal?

- Because I pay for everything.

- Exactly.!

You see. The first thing

he grabs is his hair.

I always do this.

Hey, buddy.

- How long's it going to take?

- You want it fast or

do you want it to last?

I'll write the lyrics.

Just fix the tire.

Adele, we have a bad connection.

I miss you too, honey.

I still say

he's not hot for her.

About 40 miles outside of Vegas.

I'm going to drop these guys

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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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