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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 ...
John made a career out of criticizing the vicissitudes of stage and screen—of books, music, movies, theater, and just about every cultural space in between. His extensive writings have been collected in some dozen books, most recently a three-volume set from Applause Books extending over two thousand pages.
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...
Jan 10, 2020 · Perhaps not surprisingly, Simon first made his name as a critic through his promotion of the erstwhile art-house Nazi, the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. Simon’s writing about Bergman is startling for its fatuousness.
Nov 27, 2019 · Of a play entitled ‘It Just Catches’, John began his review “It just doesn’t.” Because John was defending standards during an age in which their degradation and dissipation was de rigeur in most of the artistic and cultural demimondes, the thrust of his criticism was overwhelmingly negative.
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 ...
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Nov 24, 2019 · 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.
