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There should be a citation for the comment that Neil Simon "is the most performed playwright after William Shakespeare". Tkessler 05:50, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
he's cool!
David, you're right, of course, and such a quote would be easy to find. I hope someone takes the time. But to a person now in his Sixties, it is a weird request, almost like being asked to provide a citation for the Beatles's popularity! Simon was that popular. He filled the role in the popular imagination that Spielberg fills now, the man with the Midas touch. I added a sentence about it to the article. Profhum ( talk) 21:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
The link for The Dinner Party takes one to a play by Judy Chicago. So a Neil Simon entry needs to be created for TDP and disambiguation cleanup. David Hoag 00:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Articles here for many prominent artists have a criticism section, how about this one? I recognize Neil Simon's immense talent, but his humor is so relentlessly relentless and squarely square, and so bittersweetly bitter and sweet, I have to shut it off if his work ever pops up on TV. I'm not the one to write the critique, but surely there must be some fancy words for what Neil Simon is way too much of.
--In the seventies he was always being scolded to produce something that wasn't just funny, but when he tried, he showed his limits. Can't remember the name of that play. Personally, I think the Sunshine Boys really did have depths to it. You also wrote, "Also, the "Jewish-American" bit really jumps out. Is it necessary to assign an ethnicity like this?" Generally I agree. Does Hemingway have to be a British American author or Steinbeck a French/Dutch American? (Whatever he is.) No. When they're not labeled, but all the Jews are, aren't we implying the WASPs don't need labels, they're Just Normal Americans? And yet... about this guy? Simon has often been consciously a writer of the midcentury Jewish American experience. I think I would call Roth a Jewish American author too, for the same reason. Best wishes, Profhum ( talk) 08:59, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
This article has some sort of citation here [1], in Encyclopaedia Brittanica (it's the third in a list of 13). Anyone know what's going on?-- Shtove 08:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
The list section and the text both need to distinguish straight plays such as Barefoot in the Park and musicals such as Promises, Promises, and when citing musicals we might specify co-writers (Hal David and Burt Bacharach in Promises, Promises) and whether Simon adapted for the stage someone else's work (Promises, Promises adapted the Billy Wilder film The Apartment, for example). TheScotch ( talk) 09:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
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There should be a citation for the comment that Neil Simon "is the most performed playwright after William Shakespeare". Tkessler 05:50, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
he's cool!
David, you're right, of course, and such a quote would be easy to find. I hope someone takes the time. But to a person now in his Sixties, it is a weird request, almost like being asked to provide a citation for the Beatles's popularity! Simon was that popular. He filled the role in the popular imagination that Spielberg fills now, the man with the Midas touch. I added a sentence about it to the article. Profhum ( talk) 21:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
The link for The Dinner Party takes one to a play by Judy Chicago. So a Neil Simon entry needs to be created for TDP and disambiguation cleanup. David Hoag 00:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Articles here for many prominent artists have a criticism section, how about this one? I recognize Neil Simon's immense talent, but his humor is so relentlessly relentless and squarely square, and so bittersweetly bitter and sweet, I have to shut it off if his work ever pops up on TV. I'm not the one to write the critique, but surely there must be some fancy words for what Neil Simon is way too much of.
--In the seventies he was always being scolded to produce something that wasn't just funny, but when he tried, he showed his limits. Can't remember the name of that play. Personally, I think the Sunshine Boys really did have depths to it. You also wrote, "Also, the "Jewish-American" bit really jumps out. Is it necessary to assign an ethnicity like this?" Generally I agree. Does Hemingway have to be a British American author or Steinbeck a French/Dutch American? (Whatever he is.) No. When they're not labeled, but all the Jews are, aren't we implying the WASPs don't need labels, they're Just Normal Americans? And yet... about this guy? Simon has often been consciously a writer of the midcentury Jewish American experience. I think I would call Roth a Jewish American author too, for the same reason. Best wishes, Profhum ( talk) 08:59, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
This article has some sort of citation here [1], in Encyclopaedia Brittanica (it's the third in a list of 13). Anyone know what's going on?-- Shtove 08:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
The list section and the text both need to distinguish straight plays such as Barefoot in the Park and musicals such as Promises, Promises, and when citing musicals we might specify co-writers (Hal David and Burt Bacharach in Promises, Promises) and whether Simon adapted for the stage someone else's work (Promises, Promises adapted the Billy Wilder film The Apartment, for example). TheScotch ( talk) 09:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
This article has been reverted by a bot to this version as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) This has been done to remove User:Accotink2's contributions as they have a history of extensive copyright violation and so it is assumed that all of their major contributions are copyright violations. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. VWBot ( talk) 14:20, 10 December 2010 (UTC)