John Simon, the theater and film critic known for his lacerating reviews and often withering assessment of performers' physical appearance, has died at age 94
The"most poisonous pen on Broadway" wrote for 'New York' magazine from 1968 until he was fired in 2005.
He then worked at Bloomberg for five years before being fired in 2010. In his later years, he worked for several newspapers outside New York City. He angered the powerful, including legendary producer and director Joseph Papp — who once asked in a 1972 letter to The New York TimesIn 1981, an ad in a Hollywood trade appeared accusing Simon of being "racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, vicious and derisive." It was signed by 300 artists, apparently upset that Simon's review of complained that an actress in the show "should never be cast as anything but an itinerant gefilte fish with a nervous condition.".
in 2011 before it had officially opened on Broadway, he called their move "unfair" and "discourteous to other critics." Reviewing before being invited to the show, he argued, is "like grabbing a dish from a restaurant kitchen before it is fully cooked."
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