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John Simon (critic) facts for kids

John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American author 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 criticism for a variety of publications, including a 36-year tenure as theatre critic for New York magazine, and latterly as a blogger.

His reviews were known for their sardonic comments and negative disposition; his obituary in The New York Times called him a "caustic" critic who "saw little that he liked", and The Washington Post reported that a published collection of 245 film reviews he wrote contained only 15 positive ones. His controversial writing style, which could include harsh remarks about the physical appearances of performers, led to accusations of bigotry, public rebukes from fellow critics, and confrontations with the artists he wrote about.

Biography

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John Ivan Simon (1925-2019): R. I. P.

In his long gaze, the arts in America were in decline, or at least in a state of perpetual confusion, and he insisted that his mission was to raise standards through unflinching criticism.[…] “If I can’t convince these imbeciles of anything, I can at least annoy them, and I think I do a reasonably good job of that.”
Many readers delighted in what they considered Mr. Simon’s lofty and uncompromising tastes, and especially in his wicked judgments, which fell like hard rain on icons of culture: popular authors, Hollywood stars, rock and rap musicians, abstract artists and their defenders in critics’ circles, for whom he expressed contempt.

Although Simon wrote no fiction, he shared with Evelyn Waugh a love of the English language (unlike Waugh, Simon was not a native speaker) and a preference for writing with a pen. Most of his criticism involved theatre and films, topics Waugh rarely addressed. Simon left one volume of literary criticism involving mainly book reviews. This was The Sheep from the Goats (1989). It contains 49 essays o

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John Simon.

John Simon, the infamously vitriolic theatre critic who held the top post at New York magazine more or less uninterrupted from 1968 to 2005, died over the weekend. He was 94. This is one of two memorial tributes to his legacy; the other is here.

I’ve always believed theatre critics were some kind of cross between unicorns and transformers, strange as that may seem. When they are loving you, even unicorns are not rarer or more wonderful. And when they hate you, no Marvel concoction of death can be more chilling.

So I have always preferred to remain anonymous, unknown, utterly hidden when it comes to actually confronting any one of them. I have prided myself on meeting as few as humanly possible, believing if they don’t know what I look like… if I don’t know what they look like… maybe I’ll get away with… whatever theatre piece I might be perpetrating on the general public at that moment.

So it was with horror and dread I saw, standing in the airport line before me some years ago in Toronto, the dreaded John Simon, about to get on the same small plane I was, heade