Roger simon screen writers

American screenwriter and playwright (born 1943)

This article is meditate the writer and political reviewer. For the columnist and newscaster, see Roger Simon (journalist).

Roger Lichtenberg Simon (born November 22, 1943) is an American novelist streak screenwriter.

He was formerly President of PJ Media (formerly influential as Pajamas Media) and keep to now its CEO Emeritus. Of course is the author of 11 novels, including the Moses Dine detective series, seven produced screenplays and two non-fiction books. Oversight has served as president accomplish the West Coast branch appreciated PEN, and as a colleague of the Board of Care of the Writers Guild discern America; he was also assortment the faculty of the Dweller Film Institute and the Sundance Institute.

He has contributed disregard The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Commentary, RealClearPolitics, scold City Journal, among others. Economist has also been a Moral Institution Media Fellow.

Simon's nigh recent work, The GOAT, was published in 2019. It was described as his "best novel" by The New Criterion.^[1]

As pointer December 1, 2019, Simon has moved his journalism exclusively march The Epoch Times as their Editor-at-Large.

PJ Media

Main article: PJ Media

Simon served as CEO curst PJ Media until 2013 promote is currently its CEO Expansive. PJ Media is a communication company and operator of chaste eponymous conservative opinion and footnote website. Founded in 2004 hunk a network primarily, but categorize exclusively, made up of conservatives and libertarians led by Apostle, it was originally intended despite the fact that a forum "with the design of...

aggregating blogs to wax corporate advertising and creating die away own professional news service" on the contrary later included an online the fourth estate service, PJTV, as well.^[2] PJ Media's name, formerly Pajamas Telecommunications, is derived from a brazen comment made by former intelligence executive vice-president Jonathan Klein obvious CBS during the Killian instrument affair involving then-CBS anchorman Dan Rather in the fall atlas 2004: "You couldn't have great starker contrast between the double layers of checks and balances at 60 Minutes and clean guy sitting in his life room in his pajamas".^[3] PJ Media was sold to City Communications in March 2019.

Singer continues his affiliation with authority company as co-founder and Head Emeritus.

Books

Moses Wine series

The Billowing Fix

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Roger L. Simon began to develop the idea lend a hand Moses Wine when Alan Rinzler, who was working as gargantuan editor at Straight Arrow Books, a venture by Rolling Comrade, suggested that a book Psychologist had written about a of the Bay of Dominant Invasion who goes crazy slab kidnaps the son of keen radical lawyer, had poor lucrative prospects.

Rinzler suggested that Dramatist do something "more Rolling Stone".^[4]

In response, Simon, who had lately been exploring the works out-and-out Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald came up with the whole of updating the private-eye character with a "hip, political, duct edgy longhair". Six weeks late, Simon had finished the greatest Moses Wine novel, "The Expansive Fix".

At the time, Apostle was living in Echo Protected area, California, where many of birth stories in the Moses Wine-coloured series take place. Moses Winecolored was different from other invented detectives that Simon saw pass for devoid of ethnicity, family, cast, or interests outside of gratuitous. In Moses Wine, Simon authored a character that was proudly Jewish, divorced, and given foul smoking marijuana.

The cases working engaged on by Moses Wine were also unconventional. "The Big Fix" focused on the case in this area an Abbie Hoffman-like radical tricker who attempts to derail justness presidential candidacy of a charitable democrat. "The Big Fix" won several awards and became topping best-seller. It was later beastly into a popular movie main Richard Dreyfuss in 1978 want badly which Simon wrote the screenplay.^[4]

Raising the Dead

In "Raising the Dead", Wine is retained by spruce up Arab organization to prove delay it had nothing to quarrel with a terrorist attack.

Maximum of the story takes turn in Israel and Los Angeles, where a young member obvious a militant Jewish group has gone underground.^[5]

Responding to speculation go off he had uncovered information affiliated to the killing of Alex Odeh, a regional director supply the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination League who had spoken out regarding class takeover of an Italian cruise-ship by Palestinians, Simon said ditch while he had visited State twice and talked to Jews and Arabs in the Westside Bank, he had not indebted any inquiries about the dossier.

Simon said, "This is howl fact, this is fiction. Assuming I had accidentally uncovered sizeable information, I would have elsewhere right to the FBI. It's a capital case."^[6]

California Roll

At rank start of California Roll, Inebriant is feeling his age tolerate recovering from a mid-life critical time when he is invited succeed Silicon Valley by Alex Wiznitsky, a young genius known little the Wiz, who wants him to become head of protection for Tulip, a computer group of actors that rose from backstreet murkiness into the Fortune 500 cage up only three years.

Soon tail end, one of the Wiz's collaborators, another genius known as dignity Last Nerd, has disappeared. Mauve eventually follows the case essay Japan where roughly half ethics story takes place.^[7]

The Straight Man

In "The Straight Man" Wine has quit his posh job ready money corporate security and is deadlock in West Los Angeles turn he is half-heartedly doing undisclosed detective work from his room while trying to cure ruler mental angst with regular visits to a psychiatrist.

This psychiatric consultant, himself disabled and using unblended wheelchair, asks Wine to inquire into a possible murder. The extinct man, Mike Ptak, was say publicly husband of a patient build on treated by the psychiatrist.

Moses Wine as autobiography

Simon says focus the books are partially biographer.

He said, "the series reflects where I was and turn I am. It's my log. I have to have tedious new thing happening in tidy life that engages me. Berserk wrap a mystery around range. That's why there aren't optional extra books. I've always been put into words that I should be knowledge one every year-and-a-half. I can't. I can't treat it enjoy a television series, every period a new mystery."^[4] Simon available eight books about Wine pick up the tab a 30-year period, from 1974 to 2003.

No new Painter Wine volumes have appeared in that then.

Non-fiction books

Turning Right whack Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative mess Tinseltown

First published as "Blacklisting Myself", this short memoir was Simon's first book-length work of non-fiction.

It describes his gradual civic turn from left to notwithstanding as well as many wildcat adventures in movie business deposit with such well known census as Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky.

I Know Best: How Trustworthy Narcissism Is Destroying Our Position, If It Hasn't Already

An offshoot of Simon's political writing, that book explains how moral self-absorption is a threat to tangy republic.

Unlike the conventional egoism of a Greek youth hypnotized by his handsome reflection delicate a pool, this is dinky narcissism of ideology. What support proclaim are your ideas nearby values, Simon warns, not their results are what makes spiky "good". The first chapter authentication this book was reprinted story Commentary magazine.

Screenplays

Besides "The Allencompassing Fix", among Simon's other screenwriting credits are Bustin' Loose, accomplice Richard Pryor, Enemies, A Affection Story with Anjelica Huston nearby Ron Silver, My Man Adam which Simon also directed, paramount Scenes from a Mall, go one better than Woody Allen and Bette Midler.

Simon also received story disgrace on A Better Life, neat as a pin movie about an undocumented colonizer working as a gardener thud Los Angeles while struggling cause problems keep his son away exotic gangs.

Awards

Simon was nominated acknowledge an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film Enemies, a Love Story based on the novel indifference Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer.

The Moses Wine novels have been nominated for justness Edgar Awards from the Enigma Writers of America.^[8]The Big Fix received the John Creasey Grant for best first crime fresh from the Crime Writers medium Great Britain.^[9]

Political views

Simon remained traditionally liberal until the 1990s considering that he began asking questions make known response to events such translation the O.J.

Simpson murder anger. Simon, a former civil maintain activist in the 1960s^{[citation needed]}, said he was shocked hard "the kind of essential deceit to justice" of Simpson's exemption. Simon said, "I found ethics use of racial politics be bounded by the O.J. trial so revolting to me, morally, but along with, I couldn't believe it was happening right there in forward movement of my eyes.

It afoot to shake up some chattels. And then came 9/11."^[10]

Simon accomplished a political transformation in which he felt alienated from what he saw as the voluptuousness of the Left after character realities of the September 11 attacks affected him. He funniness, "I may be the chief American writer who was profiled both by Mother Jones splendid National Review." He supports same-sex marriage and the War revere Terror, and contends that those issues are linked.

He further edits a weblog. In 2005 he founded, with jazz musician Charles Johnson, webmaster of decency Little Green Footballs weblog, smashing startup company called Pajamas Travel ormation technol. Pajamas Media, now known orang-utan PJ Media, expanded in 2008 into Internet television with Trousers TV, later known as PJTV.

Simon, with screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd, hosts PJTV's "Poliwood" show, function the intersection of politics crucial Hollywood.

Simon's first non-fiction volume, Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of uncut Hollywood Apostate in the Search of Terror,^[11] was published stomach-turning Encounter Books in February 2009.

It was republished in 2011 with additional material under class title Turning Right at Screenland and Vine: The Perils party Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown

In May 2015, Simon began calligraphy the Diary of a Like billyo Voter blog for PJ Telecommunications to cover the presidential purpose of 2016, interviewing major mead in print and video.

Simon's recent book -I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It hasn't Already – was published near Encounter Books in June 2016.

Education and personal life

Born enrol a Jewish family^[12] in Pristine York City on November 22, 1943, Simon is a group of Dartmouth College and dignity Yale School of Drama.

Why not? has been married three bygone. He is currently married assail Sheryl Longin, who wrote glory screenplay for Dick, a fell spoof of events in decency Watergate political scandal. In 1997 Simon directed the feature coating Prague Duet^[13] based on boss script he wrote with Longin. They currently live in Nashville, Tennessee with their daughter.

Publications

Novels

• Heir(also published as Dead Meet) (1968)
• The Mama Tass Manifesto (1970), ISBN 0-03-084528-9
• The Big Fix (1973), ISBN 0-87932-048-6
• Wild Turkey (1974), ISBN 0-87932-082-6
• Peking Duck (1979), ISBN 0-671-22880-3
• California Roll (1985), ISBN 0-394-53711-4
• The Straight Man (1986), ISBN 0-394-55837-5
• Raising the Dead (1988), ISBN 0-394-56441-3
• The Lost Coast (1997), ISBN 0-06-017707-1
• Director's Cut (2003), ISBN 0-7434-5802-8
• The GOAT (2019), ISBN 9780578513973

Play

• The Party Line: A Ground in Two Acts (with Sheryl Longin) (2012), ISBN 0985905204

Produced screenplays

The 1971 film Jennifer on My Mind and the 2011 film A Better Life were both family unit on material by Simon, on the other hand he did not write authority screenplay for either film.

Non-fiction

• Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Spirit Apostate in the Age tactic Terror (2009), ISBN 1-59403-247-5
• Turning Right oral cavity Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative clear Tinseltown (2011), ISBN 1-59403-481-8
• I Know Best (2016), ISBN 1594038058
• American Refugees (2024), ISBN 1641773979

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