Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Yesterday in New York was overcast, occasionally sunny, and hot and humid. Then about 8 pm, the rains came, first lightly and then steadily through the evening leading up to midnight. The city streets are quiet after dark. It is summertime and vacationtime. You can feel it.
Yesterday morning at the Frank Campbell funeral home, they held a service for G. Nicholas (Nick) Simunek who died last Thursday, July 10th, after being briefly ill with cancer.
![]() | ![]() | | Nick Simunek and Terry Allen Kramer. | ![]() |
Nick, an Englishman, born and bred in London, a member of the Coldstream Guards in his youth, was 76. He’d attended McGill University in Canada and then lived in this country for a good part of his adult life. Fifteen years or so ago, he married Broadway producer and Wall Street banking heiress Terry Allen Kramer. Nick was a hail-fellow-well-met kind of guy, a man with a warm, ebullient personality which he shared with whomever he came in contact.
He and Terry shared a deep interest in theatrical and film producing, as well as the camaraderie of a wide variety of friends. They very often entertained at their fabulous Upper East Side duplex penthouse, at their spectacular oceanside villa in Palm Beach, and every summer in St. Tropez.
In the last few years Nick has been active in film production. He was vice-chairman of two production companies – Helmdale and Gateway Films. He was also president of Remarkable Partners, a production company owned by Terry which has produced more than 40 plays and musicals on Broadway and in the UK.
Catching up with the social calendar. Last Wednesday night at Arena, the event space next door to Bryant Park, Fred Anderson, the business partner of fashion designer Douglas Hannant, celebrated a special birthday in the company of scores (hundreds?) his mostest and closest friends. Arena is an ideal stage set for special parties with a very sophisticated lighting system, 5600 square feet of party space easily transformable for multi-media events. Fred Anderson knows how to show his guests a good time, and so it was ...
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