R.I.P. NEIL SIMON

[Irish Exit]

Can't say he was my favorite, and had to suffer through being in Plaza Suite in college, but RIP anyway.


https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Neil-Simon-Broadway-s-master-of-comedy-dies-at-13183561.php

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.

 

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He wrote some awesome plays and films, the Odd Couple, the Out of Towners, Barefoot in the Park and the Phil Silvers Show to name a few.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, in The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents. His father, Irving Simon, was a garment salesman, and his mother, Mamie (Levy) Simon, was mostly a homemaker. Simon had one older brother by eight years, television writer and comedy teacher Danny Simon. He grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan during the period of the Great Depression, graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School when he was sixteen, where he was nicknamed "Doc" and described as extremely shy in the school yearbook.

 

[Phantasmal]

Can't say he was my favorite, and had to suffer through being in Plaza Suite in college, but RIP anyway.


https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Neil-Simon-Broadway-s-master-of-comedy-dies-at-13183561.php

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.

He was brilliant, sad news indeed.

 

[Teflon Don]

He was 91.

It was time