[dfwgator]

Back when Broadway wasn’t the bastion of faggotry it is now.

[Vendome]

91 is a good run

Rest in Peace...

[morphing libertarian]

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800319/

[DeFault User]

Among the greats should be listed “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”, the only one of his plays I saw on Broadway.

RIP, Neil Simon.

[EdnaMode]

One of the greatest of all time. RIP.

[trisham]

RIP, Mr. Simon.

[oh8eleven]

RIP Neil Simon ...
My late FIL, a WWII Army vet, used to laugh himself silly watching this movie.

[OttawaFreeper]

Oddly enough, a day or two ago, I was watching on YouTube a compilation of 1982 TV intros (some immortal ones like Cheers and St. Elsewhere and others forgotten shortly after airing maybe a dozen episodes or so) and one interesting one was the black version of the “Odd Couple” with Ron Glass ( he of “Barney Miller” of course and RIP) and Demond Wilson (Lamont from “Sanford and Son”). Wonder if anyone here remembered that one?

[Waverunner]

I always liked the cheap detective, I’m a peter falk fan, and Neil Simon did the perfect sendup of 40’s noir mysteries.

[b4me]

i always get him and neil diamond mixed up until I read more of what is written.

Not sure I saw any of his plays, but obviously he did well creating them.

RIP

[Governor Dinwiddie]

One of the movies on my list of hundreds of "favorite" movies is his 1968 movie Plaza Suite with Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris and Lee Grant. Very funny stuff!
 

[SE Mom]

Oh wow, I had no idea he was that old. I guess I think all those Broadway and Hollywood talents are somewhere in their 60’s
...before realizing, I’m the one somewhere in my 60’s...

Geesh...it goes so quickly now...

Simon was brilliant and his humor is timeless.

[lee martell]

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.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The last of the giants. RIP.

[fella]

A far greater loss than McCain.

[Jack Hammer]

R.I.P. Neil Simon, Genius of Comedy. You wrote some funny stuff.

[patriot08]

We have to say goodbye to one of our greats.

Rest in peace, Me. Simon.

[Maris Crane]

When comedy wasn’t drowning in politics, and was what “comedy” was supposed to be...funny.

RIP Neil Simon, a really funny man.

[TBP]

I have a few Neil Simon stories. When the late Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager were "in a relationship", Neil Simon was at their place one day and said kind of offhandedly, "Your relationship would make a great musical." Before they could say no, he added, "I'll write the book" (the non-musical script.) That musical was They're Playing Our Song. It had a modestly successful Broadway run.

[TBP]

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.