Raymond Carver
American story writer and poet (1938–1988)
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?", in 1976. His breakout collection, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by "Cathedral" (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, "", was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."
Early life.
Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington, the son of Ella Beatrice Carter (née Casey) and Clevie Raymond Carver. His father, a sawmill worker from Arkansas, was a fisherman and a heavy drinker. Carver's mother worked on and off as a waitress and a retail clerk. His brother, James Franklin Carver, was born in 1943.
Carver was educated at local schools in Yakima. In his spare time, he read mostly novels by Mickey Spillane or publications such as "Sports Afield" and "Outdoor Life", and hunted and fished with friends and family.
After graduating from Yakima High School in 1956, Carver worked with his father at a sawmill in California. In June 1957, at age 19, he married 16-year-old Maryann Burk, who had just graduated from a private Episcopal school for girls. Their daughter, Christine La Rae, was born in December 1957. Their second child, a boy named Vance Lindsay, was born a year later. Carver worked as a delivery man, janitor, library assistant, and sawmill laborer, while Maryann worked as an administrative assistant, high school English teacher, salesperson, and waitress.
Writing career.
Carver moved to Paradise, California, with his family in 1958 to be close to his mother-in-law. He became interested in writing while attending Chico State College and enrolled in a creative writing course taught by the novelist John Gardner, then a recent doctoral graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, who became a mentor and had a major influence on Carver's life and career. In 1961, Carver's first published story, "The Furious Seasons", appeared. More florid than his later work, the story strongly bore the influence of William Faulkner. "Furious Seasons" was later used as a title for a collection of stories published by Capra Press, and is part of the collection, "No Heroics, Please" and "Call If You Need Me".
Carver continued his studies under the short story writer Richard Cortez Day (alumnus of the Iowa program) beginning in autumn 1960 at Humboldt State College in Arcata. He chose not to take the foreign language courses required by the English program and received a B.A. in general studies in 1963. During this period he was first published and served as editor for "Toyon," the college's literary magazine, in which he published several of his own pieces under his own name as well as the pseudonym John Vale.
With his B-minus average, exacerbated by his penchant to forsake coursework for literary endeavors, ballasted by a sterling recommendation from Day, Carver was accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop on a $1,000 fellowship for the 1963–1964 academic year. Homesick for California and unable to fully adjust to the program's upper middle class milieu, he only completed 12 credits out of the 30 required for a M.A. degree or 60 for the M.F.A. degree. Although program director Paul Engle awarded him a fellowship for a second year of study after Maryann Carver personally interceded and compared her husband's plight to Tennessee Williams' deleterious experience in the program three decades earlier, Carver decided to leave the University of Iowa at the end of the semester. According to biographer Carol Sklenicka, Carver falsely claimed to have received an M.F.A. from Iowa in 1966 on later curricula vitae. Maryann, who postponed completing her education to support her husband's educational and literary endeavors, eventually graduated from San Jose State College in 1970 and taught English at Los Altos High School until 1977. After completing graduate work at Stanford, she briefly enrolled in the University of California, Santa Barbara's English doctoral program when Carver taught at the institution as a visiting lecturer in 1974.
In the mid-1960s, Carver and his family resided in Sacramento, where he briefly worked at a bookstore before taking a position as a night custodian at Mercy Hospital. He did all of the janitorial work in the first hour and then wrote through the rest of his shift. He audited classes at what was then Sacramento State College, including workshops with poet Dennis Schmitz. Carver and Schmitz soon became friends, and Carver wrote and published his first book of poems, "Near Klamath", under Schmitz's guidance.
1967 was a landmark year for Carver with the appearance of "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" in Martha Foley's annual "Best American Short Stories" anthology and the impending publication of "Near Klamath" by the English Club of Sacramento State College. He briefly enrolled in the library science graduate program at the University of Iowa that summer but returned to California following the death of his father. Shortly thereafter, the Carvers relocated to Palo Alto, California, so he could take his first white-collar job, at Science Research Associates, a subsidiary of IBM in nearby Menlo Park, California, where he worked intermittently as a textbook editor and public relations director through 1970.
Following a 1968 sojourn to Israel, the Carvers relocated to San Jose, California; as Maryann finished her undergraduate degree, he continued his graduate studies in library science at San Jose State through the end of 1969 before failing once again to take a degree. During this period, he established vital literary connections with Gordon Lish, who worked across the street from Carver as director of linguistic research at Behavioral Research Laboratories, and the poet/publisher George Hitchcock.
After the publication of "Neighbors" in the June 1971 issue of "Esquire" at the instigation of Lish (by now ensconced as the magazine's fiction editor), Carver began to teach at the University of California, Santa Cruz at the behest of provost James B. Hall, an Iowa alumnus and early mentor to Ken Kesey at the University of Oregon, commuting from his new home in Sunnyvale, California.
Having endured a succession of failed applications to the Stegner Fellowship, Carver was admitted to the prestigious non-degree Stanford University graduate creative writing program for the 1972–1973 term, where he cultivated friendships with Kesey-era luminaries Ed McClanahan and Gurney Norman in addition to contemporaneous fellows Chuck Kinder, Max Crawford, and William Kittredge. The $4,000 stipend enabled the Carvers to buy a house in Cupertino, California. He also took on another teaching job at the University of California, Berkeley that year and briefly rented a pied-à-terre in the city; this development was precipitated by his initiation of an extramarital affair with Diane Cecily, a University of Montana administrator and mutual friend of Kittredge who would subsequently marry Kinder.
During his years of working at miscellaneous jobs, rearing children, and trying to write, Carver started abusing alcohol. By his own admission, he gave up writing and took to full-time drinking. In the fall semester of 1973, Carver was a visiting lecturer in the Iowa Writers' Workshop with John Cheever, but Carver stated that they did less teaching than drinking and almost no writing. With the assistance of Kinder and Kittredge, he attempted to simultaneously commute to Berkeley and maintain his lectureship at Santa Cruz; after missing all but a handful of classes due to the inherent logistical hurdles of this arrangement and various alcohol-related illnesses, Hall gently enjoined Carver to resign his position. The next year, after leaving Iowa City, Carver went to a treatment center to attempt to overcome his alcoholism, but continued drinking for another three years.
His first short story collection, "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?", was published in 1976. The collection itself was shortlisted for the National Book Award, though it sold fewer than 5,000 copies that year.
Personal life and death.
Decline of first marriage.
The following excerpt from Scott Driscoll's review of Maryann Burk Carver's 2006 memoir describes the decline of her and Raymond's marriage.
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />The fall began with Ray's trip to Missoula, Mont., in '72 to fish with friend and literary helpmate Bill Kittredge. That summer Ray fell in love with Diane Cecily, an editor at the University of Montana, whom he met at Kittredge's birthday party. "That's when the serious drinking began. It broke my heart and hurt the children. It changed everything."
"By fall of '74", writes Carver, "he was more dead than alive. I had to drop out of the PhD program so I could get him cleaned up and drive him to his classes". Over the next several years, Maryann's husband physically abused her. Friends urged her to leave Raymond.
"But I couldn't. I really wanted to hang in there for the long haul. I thought I could outlast the drinking. I'd do anything it took. I loved Ray, first, last and always."
Carver describes, without a trace of rancor, what finally put her over the edge. In the fall of '78, with a new teaching position at the University of Texas at El Paso, Ray started seeing Tess Gallagher, a writer from Port Angeles, who would become his muse and wife near the end of his life. "It was like a contretemps. He tried to call me to talk about where we were. I missed the calls. He knew he was about to invite Tess to Thanksgiving." So he wrote a letter instead.
"I thought, I've gone through all those years fighting to keep it all balanced. Here it was, coming at me again, the same thing. I had to get on with my own life. But I never fell out of love with him."
After being hospitalized three times between June 1976 and February or March 1977, Carver began his "second life" and stopped drinking on June 2, 1977, with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous. While he continued to regularly smoke cannabis and later experimented with cocaine at the behest of Jay McInerney during a 1980 visit to New York City, Carver believed he would have died of alcoholism at the age of 40 had he not overcome his drinking.
Second marriage.
In November 1977, Carver met the poet Tess Gallagher at a writers' conference in Dallas, Texas. Gallagher later remembered feeling "as if my life until then had simply been a rehearsal for meeting him." Beginning in January 1979, Carver and Gallagher lived together in El Paso, Texas, in a borrowed cabin near Port Angeles, Washington, and in Tucson, Arizona.
In 1980, the two moved to Syracuse, New York, where Gallagher had been appointed the coordinator of the creative writing program at Syracuse University; Carver taught as a professor in the English department. He and Gallagher jointly purchased a house in Syracuse, at 832 Maryland Avenue. In ensuing years, the house became so popular that the couple had to hang a sign outside that read "Writers At Work" in order to be left alone.
In 1982, he and his first wife, Maryann, were divorced.
On June 17, 1988, six weeks prior to his death, Carver and Gallagher married in Reno, Nevada.
Death.
On August 2, 1988, Carver died in Port Angeles from lung cancer at the age of 50. In the same year, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is buried at Ocean View Cemetery in Port Angeles, Washington. The inscription on his tombstone reads:
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LATE FRAGMENT
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
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His poem "Gravy" is also inscribed.
As Carver's will directed, Tess Gallagher assumed the management of his literary estate.
Awards and memorials.
Carver was nominated for the National Book Award for his first major-press collection, "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please" in 1977 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his third major-press collection, "Cathedral" (1983), the volume generally perceived as his best. Included in the latter collection are the award-winning stories "A Small, Good Thing", and "Where I'm Calling From". John Updike selected the latter for inclusion in "The Best American Short Stories of the Century." For his part, Carver perceived "Cathedral" as a watershed in his career for its shift toward a more optimistic and confidently poetic style amid the diminution of Lish's literary influence.
Carver won five O. Henry Awards with "Are These Actual Miles" (originally titled "What Is It?") (1972), "Put Yourself in My Shoes" (1974), "Are You A Doctor?" (1975), "A Small, Good Thing" (1983), and "Errand" (1988).
In Carver's birth town of Clatskanie, Oregon, a memorial park and statue are at the corner of Lillich and Nehalem streets, across from the library. A block away is the building where Carver was born.
Legacy and posthumous publications.
In December 2006, Gallagher published an essay in "The Sun magazine", titled "Instead of Dying", about alcoholism and Carver's having maintained his sobriety. The essay is an adaptation of a talk she initially delivered at the Welsh Academy's Academi Intoxication Conference in 2006. The first lines read: "Instead of dying from alcohol, Raymond Carver chose to live. I would meet him five months after this choice, so I never knew the Ray who drank, except by report and through the characters and actions of his stories and poems."
Chuck Kinder's "Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale" (2001) is a roman à clef about his friendship with Carver in the 1970s. Carver's high school sweetheart and first wife, Maryann Burk Carver, wrote a memoir of her years with Carver, "What it Used to be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver" (2006).
In 2009, "The New York Times Book Review" and "San Francisco Chronicle" named Carol Sklenicka's unauthorized biography, "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life" (2009), published by Scribner, one of the Best Ten Books of that year; and the "San Francisco Chronicle" deemed it: "exhaustively researched and definitive biography". Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, refused to engage with Sklenicka.
His final (incomplete) collection of seven stories, titled "Elephant and Other Stories" in Britain (included in "") was composed in the five years before his death. The nature of these stories, especially "Errand", have led to some speculation that Carver was preparing to write a novel. Only one piece of this work has survived – the fragment "The Augustine Notebooks", first printed in "No Heroics, Please".
Tess Gallagher fought with Knopf for permission to republish the stories in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" as they were originally written by Carver, as opposed to the heavily edited and altered versions that appeared in 1981 under the editorship of Gordon Lish. On October 1, 2009, the book, entitled "Beginners", was released in hardback in Great Britain, followed by its publication in the Library of America edition which collected all of Carver's short fiction in a single volume.
The Raymond Carver Reading Series at Syracuse University is a reading series program which annually brings 12 to 14 prominent writers to the campus. It is presented by the "Creative Writing Program" in SU's College of Arts and Sciences.
Literary characteristics.
Carver's career emphasized short stories and poetry. He described himself as "inclined toward brevity and intensity" and "hooked on writing short stories" (in the foreword of "", a collection published in 1988 and a recipient of an honorable mention in the 2006 "New York Times" article citing the best works of fiction of the previous 25 years). Another stated reason for his brevity was "that the story [or poem] can be written and read in one sitting." This was not simply a preference but, particularly at the beginning of his career, a practical consideration as he juggled writing with work. His subject matter was often focused on blue-collar experience, and was clearly reflective of his own life.
Characteristics of minimalism are generally seen as one of the hallmarks of Carver's work, although, as reviewer David Wiegand notes:
Carver never thought of himself as a minimalist or in any category, for that matter.
"He rejected categories generally," Sklenicka says. "I don't think he had an abstract mind at all. He just wasn't built that way, which is why he's so good at picking the right details that will stand for many things."
Carver's editor at "Esquire", Gordon Lish, was instrumental in shaping his prose in this direction – where his earlier tutor John Gardner had advised Carver to use fifteen words instead of twenty-five, Lish instructed Carver to use five in place of fifteen. Objecting to the "surgical amputation and transplantation" of Lish's heavy editing, Carver eventually broke with him. During this time, Carver also submitted poetry to James Dickey, then poetry editor of "Esquire".
Carver's style has also been described as dirty realism, which connected him with a group of writers in the 1970s and 1980s that included Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff with both of whom Carver was closely acquainted, as well as others such as Ann Beattie, Frederick Barthelme, and Jayne Anne Phillips. With the exception of Beattie, who wrote about upper-middle-class people, these were writers who focused on sadness and loss in the everyday lives of ordinary people—often lower-middle class or isolated and marginalized people.
In his essay "On Influence", Carver states that, while he was an admirer of Ernest Hemingway's fiction, he never saw him as an influence, citing instead the work of Lawrence Durrell.
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Neighbors (short story)
1971 short story by Raymond Carver
"Neighbors" is a short story written by Raymond Carver in 1971. It first appeared in "Esquire" magazine in June 1971. It was published in the collection "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" in 1976, in the compilation "Where I'm Calling From" in 1989, and again in "Short Cuts" in 1993.
Plot.
The short story "Neighbors" by Raymond Carver has a plot that follows the exploits of Bill and Arlene Miller who are left to take care of the Stone's apartment. The plot is chronological and despite a few memories of the characters, the action begins when the Stones leave for their trip and ends after the Millers have gone through their apartment. It is clear that there is a close friendship between the two couples and it is also apparent that Bill and Arlene find their lives less exciting than that of their neighbors. When the Stone's leave for their vacation, Bill goes over to the apartment to water the plants and feed the cat.
As time progresses in "Neighbors", Bill becomes increasingly interested in his neighbor's possessions, almost as though he is living through them simply by eating their food, drinking their drinks, and trying on their clothes. He even takes time off of work to spend time in their apartment, almost as if it has a magical quality that makes time fly by. Bill appears to be stimulated sexually by his visits the neighbor's apartment, as does Arlene. Like her husband, Arlene too spends a great deal of time at the Stone's apartment, rifling through their possessions. In the end, they accidentally leave the key to the Stone's apartment inside, hence locking themselves out. They both worry that the Stones will find out what they have been doing in their apartment.
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List of The Neighbors characters
The Neighbors is a sci-fi sitcom about a family of humans living in a community of extraterrestrials in Bayonne, New Jersey. The main cast includes Jami Gertz, Lenny Venito, Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye, Clara Mamet, Tim Jo, Ian Patrick, Max Charles, and Isabella Cramp.

Billy Neighbors
American football player (1940–2012)
William Wesley Neighbors (February 4, 1940 – April 30, 2012) was an American professional football guard who played in the American Football League (AFL) from 1962 to 1969. Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he played college football at the University of Alabama where he was a consensus All-American in 1961 and was selected in sixth round of the 1962 AFL Draft. Neighbors was also drafted in the fourth round of the 1962 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins. Neighbors was selected to the Boston Patriots All-1960s (AFL) Team and was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
His son, Wes Neighbors, was an All-Southeastern Conference center at Alabama from 1984 to 1986. His grandson Wes, is a former player at Alabama and current assistant coach. Neighbors died of a heart attack in 2012.
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Meet the Neighbors
"Meet the Neighbors" or "Pilot" is the pilot episode of the American television science fiction sitcom "The Neighbors". It was slated to air on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 26, 2012. The episode was written by Dan Fogelman, and directed by Chris Koch. The episode generally received negative reviews.
The concept of "The Neighbors" was devised by Fogelman, who previously wrote the films "Cars", "Cars 2" and "Tangled". Although it is a comedy series, its script was cited as potentially being too complex for mainstream American television. Fogelman conceived "The Neighbors" after a visit to the gated community where his mother lived.
Production.
Conception.
Dan Fogelman devised the concept of the series, which was previously entitled "Down to Earth". It was described as a sitcom about "a New Jersey family that moves into a gated community occupied exclusively by extraterrestrials." Fogelman previously wrote the films "Cars", "Cars 2" and "Tangled". The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) picked up the pilot episode of "The Neighbors" in October 2011, with a pilot commitment. Chris Koch signed on to direct the pilot episode. The show was originally produced for ABC Studios and Warner Bros. Television, but Warner Bros. Television was replaced by company Kaplan Entertainment. Dan Fogelman, Chris Koch, Jeff Morton and Aaron Kaplan executive produced the episode. In May 2012, the show renamed to "The Neighbors", and production of the program was green-lit. "Pilot" was written by Fogelman.
Fogelman conceived "The Neighbors" after visiting his mother, who lived in a gated townhouse community, and stated, "you could reach out of my mom's bathroom window and touch her neighbor's bathroom window", but they never spoke to or knew each other, and the idea was "who are these people that she's living between?", and what if they were all aliens? He claimed that family is the best part of humanity, and he kept "exploring stuff". Fogelman wants "The Neighbors" to be a show that "the whole family can watch together". He said: "It's high concept but I do want to ground it as a family sitcom".
The show's premise has been described as "goofy", and has been considered as a "high-concept" show by "Entertainment Weekly". At the semi-annual press tour in Beverly Hills, ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee stated that "The Neighbors" has "high-concept nature", but "love[d]" it. "The Neighbors" was originally stated to premiere at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, but ABC decided to air it in 8:30 time interval. In response to this, Lee claimed that "8:30 p.m. suited the show better" as "there's so much pressure [to perform] after "Modern Family"". The 9:30 p.m. slot was replaced with "Suburgatory". Lee wants it to be on the air for a long time, and claimed that "Suburgatory" would better fit in the 9:30 slot. Lee praised Fogelman, calling him a "wondering writer"; he thinks he will give a "smart piece of storytelling".
Casting.
In December 2011, Jami Gertz, Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye and Tim Jo obtained roles in the series. It was announced that Gertz would play Debbie Weaver, the matriarch of the human family, Templeman would play Wilt Chamberlain, the leader of the aliens, Olagundoye was cast as Jackie Joyner Kersee, the matriarch of the lead alien family, and Jo would appear as Joe Montana, the son of the alien family. Wilt Chamberlain was originally the lead alien Larry Bird.
In January 2012, Clara Mamet, Ian Patrick and Isabella Cramp garnered roles in the series. Mamet garnered the role of Gertz's teenage daughter, while Patrick and Cramp got kid roles. Later that month, Lenny Venito obtained the lead role as Marty Weaver, the father of the human family.
Broadcast and reception.
Ratings.
"Pilot" is scheduled to air on ABC on September 26, 2012, after "Modern Family". In Canada, it will air on Saturday at 10:00 p.m. on CTV network in the fall of 2012 after the "Crimetime Saturday" block.
Critical response.
"The Neighbors" received negative treatment at the upfront for the program. Writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle", David Wiegand thought that "The Neighbors" did not look "promising" as it has a high-concept show. Weigand compared it to the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) science fiction comedy series "3rd Rock from the Sun", claiming that the series' creator made it so different from "Third Rock From the Sun", that it is "weird". He stated that if "The Neighbors" garnered low ratings, it could possibly be replaced with "Family Tools", an ABC comedy that is scheduled to air in mid-season. He compared it to other comedies set to air on the same channel writing that those are better than "The Neighbors". According to Weigand, "The Neighbors" seems like "Outsourced", which aired for one season on NBC.
Other reviews were more positive. Dave Walker from "The Times-Picayune" thought that "The Neighbors" was a "fish-out-of-water"; he called it a "potentially comedic" show. Rob Owen, a "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" critic, claimed that he has "interest in high-concept shows"; he also "laughed a good bit at the pilot episode". His concern was "how long they can keep up the jokes. Seeing the unusual way aliens do the dishes in the pilot is hilarious. But that gag only works the first time. After that, it's stale."
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The Neighbors season 1
The first season of the American television science fiction comedy series "The Neighbors" premiered on September 26, 2012 and concluded on March 27, 2013 on ABC. The series was created by Dan Fogelman and produced by Fogelman, Chris Koch, Aaron Kaplan, John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Kristin Newman, Kirker Butler, and Jeffrey Morton. The series follows the Weavers (Jami Gertz, Lenny Venito, Max Charles, Isabella Cramp, and Clara Mamet), a family of humans who relocate to a gated community, which happens to be inhabited by aliens, such as the Bird-Kersees (Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye, Ian Patrick, and Tim Jo).
Cast.
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List of The Neighbors episodes
"The Neighbors" is an American science fiction comedy series that premiered on September 26, 2012, on ABC. The series was created by Dan Fogelman, and follows a family of humans who relocate to a gated community, which happens to be inhabited by aliens.
44 episodes of "The Neighbors" aired over the series' two seasons.
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The Neighbors (comic strip)
American comic strip by George Clark
The Neighbors was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by George Clark, which ran from April 24, 1939, to 1976.
Clark launched "The Neighbors" in 1939 with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate. Similar to his earlier "Side Glances" (1928-1939), it explored subtle aspects of middle-class family humor. He soon added a Sunday strip, "Our Neighbors, the Ripples", a title eventually shortened to "The Ripples" (1939-1948). The Sunday strip was dropped in 1948, but his daily panel continued until 1976.
Stephen Becker ("Comic Art in America") commented, "He has never attempted to induce the belly laugh; he feels that a gently humorous reminder of something that has probably happened to his reader will suffice."
Awards.
Clark received the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1961.
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Jamar Malachi Neighbors
American actor and comedian (born 1986)
Jamar Malachi Neighbors (born January 25, 1986) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his stand-up comedy and roles in "Keanu" and "What Would Diplo Do?".
Neighbors was born and raised in Compton, California. As a child, he was inspired by Martin Lawrence on "Def Comedy Jam".
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Roy Neighbors
American politician
Pomroy Monroe "Roy" Neighbors (July 11, 1923 – December 19, 2017) was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Nevada General Assembly. He was a mining consultant. Neighbors was a veteran of the United States Navy and served in World War II and the Korean War. He is also a retired naval aviator in the United States Naval Reserve. His previous political experience included manager of Nye County, Nevada for 15 years.
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The Neighbor (newspaper)
The Neighbor is a weekly newspaper serving Fountain and Warren counties in Indiana, founded 1851. It is published weekly on Tuesdays and is a member of the Hoosier State Press Association.
The Neighbor has previously been known as "The Ledger Tribune" and "The Star Tribune".

The Neighbors season 2
The second and final season of the American television science fiction comedy series "The Neighbors" premiered on September 21, 2013, on ABC, after being renewed for a second season on May 11, 2013. The series was created by Dan Fogelman and produced by Fogelman, Chris Koch, Aaron Kaplan, John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Kristin Newman, Kirker Butler, and Jeffrey Morton. The series follows the Weavers (Jami Gertz, Lenny Venito, Max Charles, Isabella Cramp, and Clara Mamet), a family of humans who relocate to a gated community, which happens to be inhabited by aliens, such as the Bird-Kersees (Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye, Ian Patrick, and Tim Jo).
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Neighbors (2014 film)
Neighbors (released in some countries as Bad Neighbours) is a 2014 American bromantic comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien. The film stars Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, with Rose Byrne, Dave Franco, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse in supporting roles. The plot follows a couple who come into conflict with a fraternity that has recently moved in next door, which leads them into an all-out war.
The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 8, 2014, and was released on May 9 in the United States. The film received generally positive reviews, with praise aimed at Efron's breakout performance, and was a commercial success, grossing over $270 million worldwide, and became Rogen's highest-grossing live-action film. A sequel, "", was released on May 20, 2016, with Stoller returning to direct, and much of the cast reprising their roles.
Plot.
Mac Radner and his Australian-born wife Kelly are adjusting to life with their infant daughter, Stella. The restrictions of parenthood make it difficult for them to maintain their old lifestyle, which alienates them from their friends Jimmy Blevins and his ex-wife, Paula. Delta Psi Beta, a fraternity known for outrageous parties, moves in next door. The fraternity's leaders, Teddy Sanders and Pete Regazolli, aspire to join Delta Psi's Hall of Fame by throwing a massive end-of-the-year party.
The Radners ask Teddy to keep the noise down and to earn their favor, he invites them to join the party. Kelly meets Teddy's girlfriend Brooke Shy, and Teddy shows Mac his bedroom, which includes a stash of fireworks and a breaker box that controls the house’s power. Teddy agrees to manage the noise but has Mac and Kelly promise to always call him instead of the police. The following night, when the party next door keeps Stella awake, Mac is unable to reach Teddy. Kelly convinces Mac to call the police anonymously, but Officer Watkins identifies them to Teddy. Betrayed, Teddy leads Delta Psi in hazing Mac and Kelly, resulting in Stella nearly eating an unused condom after the fraternity dumps their garbage on the Radners’ lawn. Mac and Kelly go to the college dean Carol Gladstone, but the school has a “three strikes” policy before it will intervene; Delta Psi's first strike was burning down their old house.
Failing to force the fraternity to move by damaging their house, Kelly manipulates Pete and Brooke into having sex, and Mac leads Teddy to catch them in the act. Teddy and Pete fight and a barbecue grill injures a passing professor. This gives Delta Psi their second strike and places them on probation, effectively ending their party plans. Determined to shut down the fraternity, Mac and Kelly enlist the help of Jimmy, who is jealous that Paula is sleeping with Delta Psi member Scoonie. To acquire evidence of Delta Psi's hazing, they hire a pledge nicknamed Assjuice to stand up to Teddy and record him threatening retaliation. When Teddy instead shows him kindness, he reveals that Mac and Kelly hired him and are trying to sabotage the fraternity. A vengeful Teddy violently pranks the Radners and Jimmy with airbags.
They send Teddy a counterfeit letter from Gladstone lifting Delta Psi’s probation. The fraternity prepares for its end-of-the-year party, which Mac, Kelly, and Jimmy widely publicize to ensure it will be out of control. Once the party is in full swing, they notify the police, but Teddy realizes what the Radners have done, and stops the party just as Watkins arrives. Jimmy throws himself from the balcony to distract Teddy, allowing Kelly to sneak into Teddy's bedroom as Mac fights him off. Unable to open the breaker box to restart the party and alert Watkins, Kelly shoots one of the fireworks at his patrol car. Paula convinces Scoonie to turn on the power, reigniting the party, and she reunites with Jimmy. Teddy takes the blame for the party, convincing Pete to flee with the others, and is arrested; the fraternity is shut down.
Four months later, Mac runs into Teddy, who is working as a shirtless greeter at Abercrombie & Fitch. They greet each other warmly and Teddy reveals he is attending night classes to complete his degree. Mac takes off his shirt and jokingly acts as a greeter with Teddy. Later, Mac and Kelly take pictures of Stella in various costumes for a calendar. They get a call from Jimmy and Paula inviting them to attend Burning Man. Mac and Kelly decline, accepting their new roles as parents.
Cast.
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Adam DeVine, Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, Kyle Newacheck, and Jake Johnson make cameo appearances as historical members of Delta Psi Beta.
Production.
Seth Rogen and Zac Efron became attached to the film before it was pitched to studios. Universal and New Line Cinema put in bids for the film, with Universal eventually securing the rights of the then-untitled project in July 2011, which was written by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien. The script was written shortly after. It was inspired by Cohen and O'Brien's fear of adulthood. In May 2012, Nicholas Stoller was in talks to direct the film. The story was originally about Rogen's character and students in a frat, but as it was too similar to "Old School", Stoller changed the script so that it would focus on Rogen's character and his wife against the frat students. Producer Evan Goldberg said: "The initial idea was frat war with Zac Efron. Maybe Seth, but definitely Zac Efron." Byrne's role grew from a footnote relegated to the responsibilities of adulthood to a full-on partner-in-crime. Cohen also said: "Initially, our biggest problem with the script was that it was too repetitious, and amping up Kelly’s involvement and bringing her into the war broke everything wide open." Rogen welcomed the change, "to me that made it even better because it became less about me and some guys fucking with a frat. It was much more about me and my wife, which was way more interesting." The cast and crew had two weeks of rehearsals during which they practiced improvisation.
Principal photography began in April 2013 and was completed by the end of May 2013 in Los Angeles, United States. Filming lasted 38 days. The two houses used in the film are situated in the West Adams District of Los Angeles.
Cameras and iPhones were distributed to extras, partygoers, and cast members for additional first-person perspective. On August 26, 2013, the film's original title "Townies" was changed to "Neighbors". The film was released as "Bad Neighbours" outside of the U.S., to prevent confusion with the similarly titled Australian soap opera. Compared with other English-speaking countries, the Australian soap was not widely known in the U.S. at the time the movie was released.
A "work-in-progress" cut of the film was screened on March 8, 2014, at The Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas during South by Southwest.
Release.
"Neighbors" grossed $150.2 million in North America and $120.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $270.7 million against a budget of $18 million, which is more than 50% less than the average film budget. Since this was the case, all of the actors had to undergo major pay cuts. Calculating in all expenses, "Deadline Hollywood" estimated that the film made a profit of $136.1 million. It is Rogen's highest grossing non-animated film, surpassing "Knocked Up" ($219.1 million).
The film grossed $49 million in its opening weekend in North America, finishing the weekend in first place at the box office. The opening total was the third highest United States opening for a non-sequel R-rated comedy behind "Sex and the City" ($57 million) in 2008 and "Ted" ($54.4 million) in 2012.
Home media.
Neighbors was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 23, 2014.
Reception.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 73% based on 224 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "With plenty of bawdy humor evenly spread between its well-matched stars, "Neighbors" earns its R rating -- and filmgoers' laughs." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 45 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.
Critics praised Efron's performance, and noted that he had successfully shed the "Disney kid" pretty boy stereotype. Critics also praised Byrne's performance and the writers' decision to have her character be a co-conspirator with Rogen's character as opposed to having her on the sidelines.
Soundtrack.
The soundtrack was released as a digital download in the US on April 29, 2014, and in the UK on May 12, 2014.
Sequel.
On February 6, 2015, it was announced that a sequel to "Neighbors" is in development, entitled "Sorority Rising", with Stoller set to return to direct. Once again written by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, the film follows Mac and Kelly joining forces with Teddy to take on the sorority girls who move into the old frat house. Rogen, Byrne, and Efron, as well as Franco, Barinholtz, and Gallo, all reprised their roles. Chloë Grace Moretz, Kiersey Clemons, Beanie Feldstein, and Selena Gomez also joined the cast. Principal photography began in mid-2015 and the film was released May 20, 2016.
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The Neighbors (2012 TV series)
American sitcom television series
The Neighbors is an American television science fiction sitcom that aired from October 27, 2012, to May 12, 2014, on ABC. The story line revolves around a family of humans living in a community of extraterrestrials. The series was created by Dan Fogelman, who also served as executive producer. Chris Koch, Jeffrey Morton, and Aaron Kaplan served as co-producers, and the first season was produced by ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment.
On October 29, 2012, "The Neighbors" was given a full-season order of 22 episodes.
Its first season aired on ABC on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central in the 2012–2013 television season. On May 11, 2013, "The Neighbors" was officially renewed for a second season, which aired on Fridays at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central.
On May 9, 2014, ABC canceled the series after two seasons.
Synopsis.
The series, set in New Jersey, revolves around a family that has relocated to a gated townhouse community called "Hidden Hills". Upon their arrival, they discover that the entire community is populated by residents from another planet. Amongst their myriad quirks, these aliens identify themselves by the names of sports celebrities, patrol the community in golf carts, dress alike, receive nourishment through their eyes and mind by reading books rather than eating, and cry green goo from their ears. The aliens have assumed human form, but they can revert to their natural appearance by clapping their hands above their heads. They have been stuck on Earth for 10 years, still awaiting instructions to return home.
Development and production.
Conception.
Dan Fogelman devised the concept of the series, which was previously entitled "Down to Earth". It was described as a sitcom about "a New Jersey family that moves into a gated community occupied exclusively by extraterrestrials." The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) picked up the pilot episode of "The Neighbors" in October 2011, with a pilot commitment. In May 2012, the show renamed to "The Neighbors", and production of the program was green-lit.
Fogelman conceived "The Neighbors" after visiting his mother, who lived in a gated townhouse community, and stated, "you could reach out my mom's bathroom window and touch her neighbor's bathroom window", but they never spoke to or knew each other, and the idea was "who are these people that she's living between?", and what if they were all aliens? He claimed that family is the best part of humanity, and he kept "exploring stuff". Fogelman wants "The Neighbors" to be a show that "the whole family can watch together". He said, "It's high concept but I do want to ground it as a family sitcom".
The show's premise has been described as "goofy", and has been considered as a "high-concept" show by "Entertainment Weekly". At the semi-annual press tour in Beverly Hills, ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee stated that "The Neighbors" has "high-concept nature", but "love[d]" it. "The Neighbors" was originally stated to premiere at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, but ABC decided to air it in 8:30 time interval. In response to this, Lee claimed that "8:30 p.m. suited the show better" as "there's so much pressure [to perform] after "Modern Family"". The 9:30 p.m. slot was replaced with "Suburgatory". Lee wants it to be on the air for a long time, and claimed that "Suburgatory" would better fit in the 9:30 slot. Lee praised Fogelman, calling him a "wondering writer"; he thinks he will give a "smart piece of storytelling".
Production team.
The single-camera comedy was originally produced for ABC Studios and Warner Bros. Television, but Warner Bros. Television was replaced by company Kapital Entertainment. Dan Fogelman, Chris Koch, Jeff Morton, and Aaron Kaplan executive produce the series. Chris Koch signed on to direct the pilot episode, which was written by Fogelman.
Casting.
In December 2011, Jami Gertz, Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye, and Tim Jo obtained roles in the series. It was announced that Gertz would play Debbie Weaver, the matriarch of the human family; Templeman would play Larry Bird, the leader of the aliens; Olagundoye was cast as Jackie Joyner Kersee, the matriarch of the lead alien family; and Jo would appear as Reggie Jackson, the son of the alien family. Larry Bird, the lead alien, was originally to be named Wilt Chamberlain.
In January 2012, Clara Mamet, Max Charles, and Isabella Cramp garnered roles in the series, Mamet as the teenage daughter and Charles and Cramp as her younger siblings. Later that month, Lenny Venito obtained the lead role as Marty Weaver, the father of the human family.
Reception.
Critical response.
"The Neighbors" initially received negative treatment from critics, but gained increasing critical praise as the season aired. Writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle", David Wiegand thought that it did not look "promising" as it was a high-concept show. He compared it to the NBC science fiction comedy series "3rd Rock from the Sun", claiming that the series' creator made it so different from "3rd Rock from the Sun", that it is "weird". He stated that if "The Neighbors" garnered low ratings, it could possibly be replaced with "Family Tools", an ABC comedy that is scheduled to air in mid-season. He compared it to other comedies set to air on the same channel, writing that those are better. According to Wiegand, "The Neighbors" seems like "Outsourced", which aired for one season on NBC.
Other reviews were somewhat more positive. Dave Walker from "The Times-Picayune" thought that "The Neighbors" was a "fish-out-of-water"; he called it a "potentially comedic" show. Rob Owen, a "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" critic, claimed that he has "interest in high-concept shows"; he also "laughed a good bit at the pilot episode". His concern was "how long they can keep up the jokes. Seeing the unusual way aliens do the dishes in the pilot is hilarious. But that gag only works the first time. After that, it's stale."
Broadcasts.
"The Neighbors" premiered at 9:30 pm approximately on September 26, 2012, on ABC after "Modern Family", before moving to its regular time slot at 8:30 p.m. after "The Middle", the following week. Disney Channel aired four episodes (maybe to gain more viewers) which in fact is also owned by The Walt Disney Company.
In Canada, it originally aired on Saturday at 10:00 pm on CTV network in the fall of 2012 after the "Crimetime Saturday" block. It has since moved to sister network CTV Two on Wednesday nights at 8:30 p.m., allowing simsubbing over the ABC broadcast.
In Australia, "The Neighbors" premiered on September 28, 2013, on Seven Network. In India, "The Neighbors" season aired from September 24 only on Star World Premiere. In the Netherlands, Comedy Central shows and repeats the series. In Portugal, FX airs the series subtitled in Portuguese.
In Italy, the series aired on under the name "" ("Neighbors of the Third Kind") in 2013.
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Neighbors (1981 film)
1981 film by John G. Avildsen
Neighbors is a 1981 American black comedy film directed by John G. Avildsen and starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty, and Kathryn Walker. Based on the 1980 novel "Neighbors" by Thomas Berger, the film's plot follows the mild-mannered and conservative Earl Keese (Belushi) as his monotonous suburbanite life is upended by the arrival of his new neighbors, the chaotic and eccentric Victor Zeck (Aykroyd) and his sultry wife Ramona (Moriarty). The film takes liberties with Berger's story and features a more upbeat ending. The screenplay of the film is officially credited to Larry Gelbart, although it was extensively rewritten to Gelbart's public disapproval. Released two and a half months before Belushi's death, the film marks his last film performance.
Plot.
Earl Keese is an uptight and conservative man leading a monotonous life on a dead-end street in a suburban neighborhood, alongside his dismissive wife, Enid. His peaceful, dreary life changes when the eccentric Zecks—charming and chaotic Vic, and sultry and seductive Ramona—move into the abandoned, disheveled house next door. The Zecks immediately impose themselves on the Keese household, with Earl quickly overwhelmed by Vic's quick-talking ways and flustered by Ramona's sexual overtures. After Vic cons Earl into giving him cash and his car to collect takeaway food, only to use it to make pasta at home, Earl responds by trying to prank Vic by hiding his car. However, due to the car's faulty brakes, Earl accidentally pushes it into the nearby swamp.
After confessing his misdeed, Earl shows Vic the swamp and falls in, nearly drowning. In his attempt to escape, he pulls Vic in with him. Vic seemingly drowns, and the stunned Earl returns home, only to be scared by the waiting Vic before Ramona again attempts to seduce him. Believing them to be mentally ill, Earl locks them in his basement and unsuccessfully calls for help. Enid, however, charmed by the Zecks, believes Earl is being irrational.
When Elaine, the Keese's punky daughter, returns home, she is equally charmed by the new neighbors. However, when Elaine shows Vic her new edible panties, Earl punches him, and the Zecks return to their home.
The following morning, Earl goes to remove the vandalism painted on his car, assuming Vic is responsible, but finds that Vic has already cleaned it. After Vic's now-broken car is towed out of the swamp, he informs Earl that he plans to move due to the nearby power lines and swamp. Earl, however, admits that he wants Vic to stay, as despite the chaos of the previous night, it was the most fun he's ever had. Vic reveals that he and Ramona are not legally married and tells Earl to take her. Earl returns home to find Ramona in his bed, and they almost have sex before they are interrupted by a panicked Vic, who has flown a remote-controlled model airplane into his house, starting a fire that burns it down.
While the ineffectual fire department watches, Vic drives away in Earl's car with his wife and daughter. Ramona tells Earl that Vic traded her for his family. Seemingly unaffected by his family's abandonment, Earl prepares to take Ramona on a date, before Vic returns with the family and takeaway food. Over dinner, Earl suggests they escape their stagnant lives and move to the city, believing Vic deliberately burned his house down for a substantial insurance payment which can fund their new lifestyle. Instead, Vic and Ramona reveal that the house still belonged to the Keese's former neighbor, who moved to a nursing home where Vic worked and has since died.
The Keeses offer to let the Zecks move into their home, even offering them the master bedroom, but, to their dismay, Vic and Ramona choose to leave because the area does not suit their extroverted personalities. Earl then accuses the Zecks of stealing his checkbook, but Enid and Elaine find it untouched. Remorseful, Earl signs his car over to the Zecks.
Earl settles back into the mundanity of his former life, while Elaine returns to boarding school and Enid leaves for an emergency class on Native American studies. Vic and Ramona return, offering Earl the chance to join them on their adventures to anywhere. Earl readily accepts, burning his house to the ground before the trio drives away.
Cast.
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Production.
Thomas Berger's best-selling novel, "Neighbors", was published in 1980. Columbia Pictures acquired the rights to film the novel and assembled a high-profile cast and crew: Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown had produced "Jaws" (1975); John G. Avildsen had won an Academy Award for directing "Rocky" (1976); veteran comedy writer Larry Gelbart had developed the hit TV series "M*A*S*H" (1972–1983); and John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd had been stars of TV's "Saturday Night Live" (on which they appeared from 1975 to 1979) and the film "The Blues Brothers" (1980). The film's female leads were played by Cathy Moriarty, who had made her film debut in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" (1980), and Kathryn Walker, who had been the girlfriend of Belushi's "National Lampoon" colleague Douglas Kenney (1946–1980).
The production of "Neighbors" was troubled. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd switched their roles in pre-production, acting against type (usual-wild man Belushi played the meek Earl and usual-straight-arrow Aykroyd played the obnoxious Vic). Belushi and Aykroyd also argued constantly with director John G. Avildsen (as they believed that he had no understanding of comedy), and lobbied to have him removed from the picture. Belushi wanted either Aykroyd, himself or John Landis to direct the film. Avildsen also argued with producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, and screenwriter Larry Gelbart objected to the changes made to his screenplay by Dan Aykroyd. John Belushi's drug problems also impaired the film's production, and "Neighbors" proved to be Belushi's final film before he died of a drug overdose.
Tom Scott was originally assigned to compose the score for "Neighbors" but was replaced by Avildsen's frequent collaborator Bill Conti. John Belushi unsuccessfully tried to have the film finish with a song written and performed by the punk rock group Fear (Belushi had discovered the band and brought them to Cherokee Studios to record songs for the film). Music producing partners Steve Cropper and Bruce Robb remember recording the band's music, but nobody knows exactly what happened with the final soundtrack which was ultimately replaced in the film by Conti's more traditional movie score. "How can I describe what it was like recording in the early days of punk?" said music producer and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb. "We had decided to track the song selection in order, and were on track 4 before the band realized they were all using different set lists. The irony is we couldn't tell." Upset with Belushi's antics and believing that Fear's music was inappropriate for "Neighbors", the movie studio eventually forced the band off the soundtrack project. To make up for it, Belushi got them a guest spot on "Saturday Night Live".
A comprehensive look at the troubled production of "Neighbors" can be found in the books "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" by Bob Woodward (1984) and "" by Judith Belushi Pisano and Tanner Colby (2005).
Release.
Critical reception.
For one test version of the film, the head of Columbia Pictures, Frank Price, made the contentious decision to have quotations from positive press reviews of Berger's book assembled into a caption that would serve as a prologue to the film (this move prompted an angry missive from Dan Aykroyd). The final version of "Neighbors" was released to cinemas in December 1981 and it received mixed reaction from both critics and from some fans of Belushi and Aykroyd, who did not like that they played the complete opposite character types that they usually would. Columbia Pictures made sure to open the film in a larger than expected number of theatres because they anticipated it would draw a very large initial turnout from fans of its two stars, and could do well for the holiday season before being derailed by poor word-of-mouth. Per Box Office Mojo, "Neighbors" earned almost $24million of its ultimate $30million grosses in only a few weeks of release at the end of 1981. The movie thus made a profit because it only cost $8million to produce.
David Ansen, writing for "Newsweek Magazine," wrote:
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />Thomas Berger's paranoid comic novel could have been made a fascinating movie in the hands of, say, Roman Polanski, who knows how to make a comedy of menace. John G. Avildsen ("Rocky") doesn't have a clue: you can't twist reality if you can't establish a reality to twist. Belushi and Aykroyd obviously got cast because they're "bankable," but no one seems to have asked if they were appropriate. The parts demand subtle comic acting – they do TV turns. Just how much blame falls on Larry Gelbart's disjointed script is hard to say (Avildsen could make any writer look bad), but without question Bill Conti has come up with the year's most offensive score – a cattle prod of cartoonish cuteness that only underlines the movie's desperate uncertainty of tone. The ads for "Neighbors" call it "a comic nightmare;" it's more like a sour case of creative indigestion.
Roger Ebert, reviewing for the "Chicago Sun-Times," awarded the film three stars out of four, and wrote that ""Neighbors" is a truly interesting comedy, an offbeat experiment in hallucinatory black humor. It grows on you." Ebert also wrote approvingly of Belushi and Aykroyd as the leads, citing it as "brilliant casting, especially since they divided the roles somewhat against our expectations." In his book "Guide for the Film Fanatic", Danny Peary wrote, "I think this surreal comedy is imaginatively done, and perfectly conveys the lunacy of the two comics...I'm glad they went against type because both actors are at their absolute best." Peary argued that the "final picture is faithful to Thomas Berger's zany, satirical novel" but noted that he prefers "the film's happier ending."
"Neighbors" holds a 57% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Soundtrack.
In December 2007, Varèse Sarabande released the "Neighbors" soundtrack on CD. The CD contains the score by Bill Conti as heard in the film (tracks 1-30), as well as the unused score by Tom Scott (tracks 31–49).
While the film features the songs "Hello, I Love You" by The Doors, "Holiday In Cambodia" by Dead Kennedys, and "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees, none of the songs are included on the soundtrack album.
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The Neighbours (radio play)
The Neighbours is a 1945 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most highly regarded plays. He based it on the town of Geraldton, where Turner had lived.
The play came equal first in a 1944 ABC playwriting competition (along with "Safe Horizon" by Jon Cleary), out of 234 entries.
Reviewing the play, Leslie Rees wrote "no writer has so specifically and sharply caught the peculiar glint of Westralian light as Turner."
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.
Premise.
The breaking up of a family during the evacuation from Geraldton in 1942.
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Neighborhood (role-playing game)
Tabletop role-playing game
Neighborhood is a role-playing game published by Wheaton Publications in 1982.
Description.
"Neighborhood" is a childhood system (i.e., a game about being a kid). It consists of the everyday struggles of children in suburban neighbourhoods.
Publication history.
"Neighborhood" was published by Wheaton Publications in 1982.
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Finding Neighbors
Finding Neighbors is a 2013 American independent comedy drama film directed by Ron Judkins. This adult comedic drama is the story of a formerly acclaimed graphic novelist who goes looking for a true connection outside of his marriage – and just over his fence. Six months late on a book delivery, Sam (Michael O'Keefe) has succumbed to a full-on midlife and creative crisis. Sherrie (Julie Mond), the provocative girl-next-door, offers him an easy and willing distraction. But it is Sam’s budding friendship with another neighbor (Blake Bashoff), a gay man, that ultimately helps him reconnect with his creativity. Sam, however, reveals nothing of this to his wife (Catherine Dent), and as he begins to change, she becomes increasingly suspicious about what’s going on in the neighborhood.
Release.
"Finding Neighbors" world premiered at the 2013 Austin Film Festival, and subsequently screened within such festivals as St. Louis International Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Newport Beach International Film Festival, Omaha Film Festival, and Boston LGBT Film Festival.
Production Notes.
Writer/Director Ron Judkins is best known as Steven Spielberg's go-to production sound mixer, having won two Academy Awards for Best Sound (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan) and has been nominated for another three in the same category. "Finding Neighbors" is his first film since 1999's The Hi-Line which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, and won the Austin Film Festival Audience Award. The film was shot primarily in Atwater Village in Los Angeles, CA.
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Neighbors (novel)
1980 novel by Thomas Berger
Neighbors is a 1980 novel by American author Thomas Berger. It is a satire of manners and suburbia, and a comment on emotional alienation with echoes of the works of Franz Kafka. Earl Keese’s character and situation begin realistically but become increasingly fantastic. Keese is an Everyman whose life is swiftly turned upside down. As he scrambles to reclaim his sense of normalcy and dignity, he comes to think that everyone, including his family, is against him.
Plot summary.
Earl Keese is a middle-aged, middle-class suburbanite with a wife, Enid, and teenage daughter, Elaine. Earl is content with his dull, unexceptional life, but this changes when a younger, less sophisticated couple, Harry and Ramona, move in next door. Harry is physically intimidating and vulgar; Ramona is sexually aggressive, and both impose themselves on the Keese household. Their free-spirited personalities and overbearing and boorish behavior endear them to Enid and Elaine, but Earl fears that he is losing control of his life and his family. Over the course of one night, the antagonism between Earl and his new neighbors escalates into suburban warfare.
Critical reception.
"Kirkus Reviews" wrote that "Neighbors" was "one weird book... a savage send-up of common courtesies. A fantasia on middle-class paranoia. And, perhaps above all, a lesson in how a comic master can make the same joke over and over (here, the explosions of aggression) and get a big laugh every time. Even without much shaping or sense of pace--it's more a long skit than a well-made novel--a harrowing and hilarious triumph." In an article published after Berger's death in 2014, the "Los Angeles Review of Books" called "Neighbors" "a book such as Kafka might have written had he lived in an American suburb and had a much stronger sense of humor."
Analysis.
Berger's off-kilter tone blurs the line between paranoia and reality, defense and offense, action and intention, ally and adversary. Harry and Ramona seem to constantly undergo changes in their respective personalities and Enid and Elaine appear to choose sides against Earl at random, but Berger also implies that it is Earl’s sense of reality that is skewed and deluded.
Earl is frustrated because he can never prove that Harry and Ramona are doing anything wrong on purpose, and the more he attempts to expose them, the more ridiculous he makes himself. Yet Earl comes to realize that Harry and Ramona have served as the crucible of his redemption: being forced out of his comfort zone of complacency and habit has provided him with an excitement he has never known before. As Earl comes to recognize value in his neighbors, he realizes that his wife is a distrustful alcoholic, his daughter is an underachiever and petty thief, and that his new neighbors can provide him with an escape from his existence of insignificance and emotional impotence. From a nightmare comes hope and a strengthened resolve to survive. In his study of Berger, writer Stanley Trachtenberg describes "Neighbors" as an existentialist parable in which "the loss of coherence between various aspects of self comically fragments the notion of identity and thus fictionalizes the existential concept of authenticity as a shaping condition of it."
In a 1980 newspaper interview, Berger said of "Neighbors", "As my 10th novel, begun at the close of my 20th year as a published novelist, it is appropriately a bizarre celebration of whatever gift I have, the strangest of all my narratives . . . the morality of this work, like that of all my other volumes, will be in doubt until the end of the narrative – and perhaps to the end of eternity, now that I think about it."
Adaptations.
A film version was released in 1981, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It was also adapted into a play by Eve Summer, which premiered in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2007.
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Robert Neighbors
Texas politician and Indian agent (1815-1859)
Robert Simpson Neighbors (November 3, 1815 – September 14, 1859) was an Indian agent and Texas state legislator. Known as a fair and determined protector of Indian interests as guaranteed by treaty, he was murdered by a white man named Cornet, whose brother-in-law had been defamed by Neighbors, accusing the brother-in-law (one Patrick Murphy of Belknap, sheriff, saloon owner and businessman) a common horse thief, responsible for stealing horses from the reservation Indians. When Neighbors refused to recant the accusation in front of the two men, Cornet shot Neighbors with a shotgun. Cornet was murdered and Murphy acquitted as he did not pull the trigger. Cornet went on the run and was killed during his arrest.
Early life.
Robert Simpson Neighbors was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, on November 3, 1815. He was the sole son of William and Elizabeth (Elam) Neighbours. In later life he chose to drop the u from his last name. He was orphaned at a mere four months old, when both parents died of pneumonia. He was later educated by private tutors, who were retained by his guardian, Samuel Hamner, a Virginia planter.
Immigration to Texas and army service.
Neighbors left Virginia at the age of nineteen, and while he stayed briefly in New Orleans, his intention was always to immigrate to Texas, which he did in the early spring of 1836. He joined the Army of the Republic of Texas on 30 January 1839 as a first lieutenant, commanding Fort Travis on Galveston Island before becoming quartermaster on 5 September, and promoted to captain on 15 July 1840 and served until the end of 1841.
Capture by General Adrian Woll.
On September 15, 1842, as a member of Captain John C. Hays's company of volunteers, Neighbors was in San Antonio attending Judge Anderson Hutchinson's court, when General Adrian Woll made his invasion of Texas and captured the city. Along with approximately fifty-two other individuals, including the officers of the court, he was forcibly marched to Mexico, where he was subsequently imprisoned in San Carlos Fortress.
Indian Agent and the field system.
Neighbors was released on March 24, 1844, and returned to Texas. He briefly operated the Mansion House hotel in Houston before becoming Indian Agent for the Republic of Texas on 12 February 1845. Thomas G. Western, Texas Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and Neighbors as Indian Agent for the Lipan Apaches and Tonkawas, initiated a new policy, the field system; instead of remaining at the agency headquarters and waiting for the Indians to pay him a visit, as was the common practice, Neighbors dealt with them directly in their homelands.
After the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the United States, Neighbors was a party to Treaty 246 between the US, represented by Indian commissioners Pierce M. Butler and M.G. Lewis, and the chiefs of the Comanches, Ionies, Anadarkos