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325: 135: 1583: 25: 772:. When first published, this novel received lukewarm reviews and indifferent sales. A few months later, Perelman was interviewed for a national publication. The interviewer asked Perelman if he had read anything funny lately. Perelman—a man not noted for generosity with his praise—went to considerable lengths to commend 1219:
direct assault on culture ... to flay the barbarian enemy: the hucksters and the hacks, the beaming empty face of commercial society ... It was his special pleasure in the '30s and '40s to take some inoffensive professional manual by the scruff and wring from it every drop of false feeling or
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has in turn admitted to being influenced by Perelman and recently has written tributes in very much the same style. The two once happened to have dinner at the same restaurant, and when the elder humorist sent his compliments, the younger comedian mistook it for a joke. Authors that admired
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in which he gives acid (and disillusioned) descriptions of recent viewings of movies (and recent re-readings of novels) that had enthralled him as a youth in Providence, Rhode Island, later as a student at Brown University, and then while a struggling comic artist in Greenwich Village.
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turned rather sour when late in his life he (temporarily) relocated to England. He returned to New York in 1972, having concluded that "English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth."
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Perelman reportedly regarded children as a nuisance. His son Adam (born in 1936) committed several robberies in the mid-1950s, was accused of attempted rape, and ended up in a reformatory for wayward boys. The two things that brought Perelman happiness were his MG automobile and a
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Perelman also occasionally used a form of word play that was, apparently, unique to him. He would take a common word or phrase and change its meaning completely within the context of what he was writing, generally in the direction of the ridiculous. In
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Sometimes he gleaned an apparently off-hand phrase from a newspaper article or magazine advertisement and then write a brief, satiric play or sketch inspired by that phrase. A typical example is his 1950s work "No Starch in the Dhoti,
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Perelman wrote many brief, humorous descriptions of his travels for various magazines, and of his travails on his Pennsylvania farm, all of which were collected into books. (A few were illustrated by caricaturist
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People like SJ Perelman and EB White – people who could do certain amazing things in prose. Perelman was the first true American surrealist – ranking with the best in the world surrealist movement.
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In other sketches, Perelman satirized popular magazines or story genres of his day. In "Somewhere a Roscoe," he pokes fun at the "purple prose" writing style of 1930s pulp magazines such as
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has declared his admiration for Perelman's writing. Keillor's "Jack Schmidt, Arts Administrator" is a parody of Perelman's classic "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer", itself a parody of the
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writers of the era frequently produced. Yet his references to himself were typically wittily self-deprecatory—as for example, "before they made S.J. Perelman, they broke the mold."
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writer of the United States. In these numerous brief sketches he pioneered a new and unique style, using parody to "wring every drop of false feeling or slovenly thinking."
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They were infused with a sense of ridicule, irony, and wryness and frequently used his own misadventures as their theme. Perelman chose to describe these pieces as
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Perelman wrote at least five original plays produced on Broadway from 1932 to 1963, two as collaborators with his wife Laura. The first was the musical revue
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A number of his works were set in Hollywood and in various places around the world. He stated that as a young man he was heavily influenced by
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to be a novel, it is actually his first collection of humorous pieces, many written while he was a student at Brown. It is largely considered
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Perelman is highly regarded for his humorous short pieces that he published in magazines in the 1930s and 1940s, most often in
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Perelman's personal life was difficult. In 1929 at the age of 25 he married the 18-year-old sister of his school friend
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Along with his explicit credits, Perelman and Laura West Perelman worked as contract screenwriters for
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was very different from those sketches of the inept "little man" struggling to cope with life that
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The phrase "crazy like a fox" gained popularity after Perelman used it as a book title in 1944.
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the same year. They remained married until Laura's death in 1970. Perelman did not remarry.
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and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for
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and liberally sprinkled his prose with these phrases, thus paving the way for the likes of
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The marriage was strained from the start because of his innumerable affairs (notably with
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in multiple roles, fared less well, its short run attributed in part to the 114-day
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listed Perelman as a major influence in his December 13, 2012 interview on the
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A vitriolic but amusing review of Perelman's career and alleged demise
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And Did You Once See Sidney Plain? A Random Memoir of S.J. Perelman
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Don't Mention the Marx Brothers: Reminiscences of S.J. Perelman
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in 1921, where he became editor of the campus humor magazine
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In cinema, Perelman is noted for co-writing scripts for the
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Perelman, S. J. (January 1, 1949). "Stringing Up Father".
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Perelman was indirectly responsible for the success of
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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay
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Perelman picked up plenty of pungent expressions from
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William Cole and George Plimpton (Summer–Fall 1963).
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S. J. Perelman's typewriter (New York Public Library)
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Don't Tread on Me: Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman
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and made uncredited contributions for films such as
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Beginning with an off-hand phrase in a 133: 1637:Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 1579:Encyclopedia Brunoniana entry on Perelman 798: 463:thief that he should have been arrested. 109:Learn how and when to remove this message 1477:. NY: Infobase Publishing. p. 154. 1420: 1368: 1349: 1269: 1231: 1118: 1116: 1114: 1084: 1082: 1060: 927:(collection of re-printed pieces) (1958) 323: 317:. For these, he is considered the first 1470: 494:school of tough, amorous 'private-eye' 211: 1929; died 1970) 3327: 522:, which opened in December 1932. With 2602: 1609: 1596: 1504: 1350:Perelman, S. J. (December 16, 1944). 1235:Twentieth Century American Literature 1142: 1111: 1079: 757: 1309:"S.J. Perelman talks to Tony Bilbow" 1088: 526:, he wrote the book for the musical 511: 468:Perelman's ingenious style included 431:and Flann O'Brien, particularly his 47:adding citations to reliable sources 18: 3395:20th-century American screenwriters 1091:"'I Don't Believe in Kindly Humor'" 548:1962 New York City newspaper strike 13: 3390:20th-century American male writers 1505:Ammer, Christine (April 1, 1997). 14: 3421: 3385:American male non-fiction writers 1543: 1124:"S.J. Perelman, Crazy Like a Fox" 16:American screenwriter (1904–1979) 3365:Screenwriters from New York City 1731:Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and 1584:Works by or about S. J. Perelman 1372:Conversations with S.J. Perelman 1273:Conversations with S.J. Perelman 1089:Lahr, John (September 7, 1986). 987:Conversations with S.J. Perelman 706: 346:, written in collaboration with 253:Early life, family and education 23: 1563:Some information about Perelman 1498: 1464: 1444: 1414: 1400: 1377:University Press of Mississippi 1362: 1352:"Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer" 1343: 1278:University Press of Mississippi 1207:The flinty eye behind the humor 1154:NewEnglandHistoricalSociety.com 1128:NewEnglandHistoricalSociety.com 1054: 1029:. G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1986). 793: 208: 34:needs additional citations for 1323: 1301: 1263: 1225: 1195: 1168: 1020:S.J. Perelman A Critical Study 723:as contract screenwriters for 591:His official credits include: 1: 3345:Jewish American screenwriters 1471:Buckley, Christopher (2008). 1072: 484:Oxford Book of Humorous Prose 389:article ("...the late Pandit 298:in Manhattan, New York City. 3400:Classical High School alumni 1015:. Twayne Publishers, (1983). 995:(UK reprinted pieces) (2000) 7: 3370:American male screenwriters 1369:Teicholz, Tom, ed. (1995). 1270:Teicholz, Tom, ed. (1995). 909:Under the Spreading Atrophy 887:The Ill-Tempered Clavichord 687:Around the World in 80 Days 572:Around the World in 80 Days 498:. Irish comedian and actor 249:for screenwriting in 1956. 10: 3426: 3405:20th-century American Jews 3106:Charlie and Donald Kaufman 1022:. Greenwood Press, (1987). 1001:(Library of America)(2021) 993:The World of S.J. Perelman 881:A Child's Garden of Curses 681:The Night Before Christmas 276:in Providence. He entered 3089: 2850: 2636: 2357: 2134: 1891: 1643: 1603: 1598:Awards for S. J. Perelman 1421:Mitchell, Martha (1993). 1396:– via Google Books. 1297:– via Google Books. 1259:– via Google Books. 1006:Books about S.J. Perelman 925:The Most of S.J. Perelman 899:Perelman's Home Companion 893:Hold that Christmas Tiger 875:The Swiss Family Perelman 869:Listen to the Mockingbird 857:The Best of S.J. Perelman 289: 218: 192: 182: 174: 160: 141: 132: 125: 3308:and Alex Mechanik (2023) 3150:Joel Coen and Ethan Coen 2430:Joel Coen and Ethan Coen 1558:. 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Academy Award
Brooklyn
dry goods store
Providence, Rhode Island
Classical High School
Brown University
The Brown Jug
Greenwich Village
Al Hirschfeld
surrealist humor

feuilletons
Q.J. Reynolds
P.G. Wodehouse
juvenilia

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