Posted on 08/26/2018 9:17:58 AM PDT by Borges
Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as "The Odd Couple," ''Barefoot in the Park" and his "Brighton Beach" trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, has died. He was 91.
Simon died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia surrounded by family at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, said Bill Evans, his longtime friend and the Shubert Organization director of media relations.
In the second half of the 20th century, Simon was the American theater's most successful and prolific playwrights, often chronicling middle class issues and fears.
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I have the DVD around here somewhere.
I maybe watched an episode or two of the new odd couple.
Neil probably caused his share of #MeToo moments during his younger years. Like most people in Theater. Apparently, though Neil didn’t have a lot of bitter enemies left alive ready to start problems.
The last of the giants. RIP.
To paraphrase Charles Barkley, "You were relatively not too bad. All your relatives thought you were not too bad."
lol
It was, they just kept it under cover... You don't think any guys got a part without smoking a pole?
Unless you go with the revisionist LBGTQRSTUV history where every historical figure is gay and every piece of literature from the bible on, has been about gay people and all the characters being written about are actually gay.
A far greater loss than McCain.
R.I.P. Neil Simon, Genius of Comedy. You wrote some funny stuff.
The Cheap Detective is an underappreciated classic. Well, it’s cheap.
Rest in peace, Me. Simon.
me= Mr.
>>To paraphrase Charles Barkley, “You were relatively not too bad. All your relatives thought you were not too bad.”
lol<<
That’s pretty good :)
When comedy wasn’t drowning in politics, and was what “comedy” was supposed to be...funny.
RIP Neil Simon, a really funny man.
Relatively speaking, right?
I saw a clip of Barkley goofing with some fans. Some kid was teasing him a little, he was tall, Barkley asked if he played ball himself. Kid said, yeah, he was hoping to play college ball.
Barkley said, Yeah, well, you've got the build. Good shape. And you're relatively good-looking too...yeah, yeah, you know what that means, don't you? All your relatives think you are good looking!
I saw his "Come Blow Your Horn" on the pre-Broadway run in Washington DC. Hilarious. I still remember one of the scenes vividly 55 years later. The protagonist's smothering mother was martyring herself about something and said, "All right then, I'm leaving — dragging my fur coat behind me," and actually dragged a beautiful full-length fur coat across the stage.
I liked him best when he was still with Garfunkel.
For a time, Simon lived in LA because several of his plays were being made into movies. Like most dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, he found LA, shall we say, a bit boring. “There are no people on the streets”, he once complained. He also is quoted as saying that “there are 87 interesting people in Los Angeles.”
Simon said he used to go over to Westwood, where UCLA is located, to stand in the movie lines — not to see the movies, but to feel the press of people around him. It made a New Yorker feel more at home.
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