Max Dugan Returns resonates with clever dialogue, loveable criminality, and a philosophy of life and baseball: "Can you make money from philosophy?" "If you have the right one." The Goodbye Girl is also brilliantly funny. Yet they remain little known in Neil Simon's comedic canon, even though these two plays are never sentimental as his other, more well-known plays can, at times, be.
Public attention to Neil Simon's death Aug 26th was eclipsed by John McCain's the day before. This is unfortunate. Simon made a significant theatrical contribution to the world of humor, which we can never have enough of.
Public attention to Neil Simon's death Aug 26th was eclipsed by John McCain's the day before. This is unfortunate. Simon made a significant theatrical contribution to the world of humor, which we can never have enough of.
