Better than average Neil Simon piece, perhaps because a semi-autobiographical one -- like, for instance, the above-average and semi-autobiographical Chapter Two. The Neil Simon character here is a sex-starved teenager (and would-be either writer or New York Yankee) in the Brooklyn of 1937, but the author sees the entire household -- mother, father, older brother, widowed aunt and two female cousins -- with a democratically sympathetic eye. Bob Dishy, just on his own warmth, earns some extra sympathy as the patriarch with the weight of the world on his shoulders. There are long and dreary stretches of Well-Made-Play mechanicalism; but these lay the groundwork for such rich payoffs as the dinner scene, half an hour in, and the night of Aunt Blanche's broken dinner date. With Blythe Danner, Judith Ivey, and Jonathan Silverman; directed by Gene Saks. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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