Actor James Coco played the Alan Arkin Barney Cashman lead role in Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" on Broadway. Coco was nominated for the 1970 Tony Award (New York City) for Best Actor in a Drama but did not win. Later, Coco would co-star in three Simon written movies, Murder by Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978) and Only When I Laugh (1981), the last of which Coco was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actor.