Talk:Neil Simon

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Contents 1 Most performed 2 Erroneous link on The Dinner Party 3 Criticism 4 Britannica

[edit] Most performed

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)

• This would be an interesting addition if it could be sourced. Otherwise, how do we know this isn't an "urban theater legend"? ;) David Hoag 00:55, 22 November 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)

[edit] Erroneous link on The Dinner Party

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)

[edit] Criticism

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)

[edit] Britannica

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)