Simon sez?

[davemarc]

At 03:53 PM 11/18/96 -0600, Don wrote:
>
>Davemarc comments:
>"New York Magazine features the often nasty and creepy albeit
>hyper-sophisticated criticism of John Simon."
>
>John Simon--an intellectual's Savant, a man who can speak twelve languages
>and think in none!
>
>A-and a man whose major contribution to film criticism has been to revive
>the ad hominem attack!
>
There's a fascinating item in Ned Rorem's new essay collection "Other
Entertainment" in which Rorem interviews Simon soon after the critic had
fired controversy by saying "Homosexuals in the theater!  My God, I can't
wait until AIDS gets all of them!" and called the play *The Octette Bridge
Club* "faggot nonsense."

This example of "gentlemanly" verbal fencing originally appeared in *New
York Native*.

davemarc