• Playwright Neil Simon and his wife Elaine have picked up another apartment at the Ritz Tower on Park Avenue. The couple paid $1.225 million for the two-bedroom on the building's 14th floor. It's the fourth apartment that Simon has purchased in the building, where he's been a resident since the 1970s. [NYO]
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A roundup of people who will be celebrating their birthdays on Friday, Saturday and Sunday is below.
The world's most famous half-Puerto Rican/half-Jewish man with a moustache, Geraldo Rivera, will turn 65 tomorrow. Also celebrating on the fourth of July: Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who will be 78 and playwright Neil Simon, who is turning 81. Other people celebrating birthdays over the long weekend: RZA, 50…
The bard of boulevard comedy, author of Brighton Beach Memoirs and The Odd Couple, Simon is one of the most prolific and celebrated playwrights in America.
