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By Esther Zuckerman 7/07/10 10:12pm

Simon Rich’s Scary New York

When Simon Rich was growing up and walking around the streets of New York he was always afraid of an air conditioner falling on his head.

“I still walk closer to the curb because I’m sure that’s going to happen,” the 26-year-old novelist SNL writer said over iced coffee last week.

For Mr. Rich, whose Read More

By Molly Fischer 6/23/10 12:37pm

Jason Reitman Buys the Rights to Simon Rich’s Book

It’s not bad being Simon Rich–son of Frank Rich, SNL writer, novelist, and now screenwriter.

The Hollywood Reporter says that Up in the Air director Jason Reitman has purchased the movie writes to Elliot Allagash, the comic novel of high school misadventures that Rich published this spring. Rich will adapt the book; Reitman Read More

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