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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 ...
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...
Nov 30, 2019 · John Simon used the writer’s equivalent of weapons of war because, in his own mind, he was engaged in a larger battle: the fight to uphold “standards,” to defend the timeless quality of certain...
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. His wife, Patricia Hoag Simon,...
It was John Simon, our legendary critic who died in November at the age of ninety-four. Only John, I imagine, would have used “whom” rather than “who” in his salacious salutation. He was not about to make an error of grammar at his own demotic expense, even for a joke.
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 ...
Nov 26, 2019 · John Simon, whose lively, erudite and ferociously acerbic columns on movies, music and theater made him one of America’s most influential and reviled critics, died Nov. 24 at a hospital in...
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