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Nov 25, 2019 · John Simon, one of the nation’s most erudite, vitriolic and vilified culture critics, who illuminated and savaged a remarkable range of plays, films, literature and art works and their creators for...
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Nov 25, 2019 · John Simon, the theater and film critic known for his lacerating reviews and often withering assessment of performers’ physical appearance, has died. He was 94.
Nov 30, 2019 · John Simon: Now That He’s Gone, the Image of the Critic as Hater May Have Died Out Too. By Owen Gleiberman. When the critic John Simon died last weekend, at 94, virtually every piece...
Nov 30, 2019 · When the critic John Simon died last weekend, at 94, virtually every piece written about him — one usually calls these pieces “tributes,” though in Simon’s case I’m not sure the word applies —...
Nov 25, 2019 · John Simon, whose biting, sometimes personal New York Magazine theater reviews drew devoted readers and withering criticism of their own, died yesterday at a hospital in Valhalla, New York. He was...
Nov 25, 2019 · John — who died yesterday at 94, after a stroke — was New York’ s drama critic for 36 years, from late 1968 to 2005, apart from a brief period when he moved over to covering film. (He also ...
John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American writer and literary, theater, and film critic. After spending his early years in Belgrade, he moved to the United States, serving in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and studying at Harvard University. Beginning in the 1950s, he wrote arts ...
