Critical Essay by John Simon
[The Sunshine Boys is a play] where gagwriting is ostensibly subordinated to pathos, and underlying the comedy is a supposedly serious theme…. The significant plot...
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Frank Rosenfelt, who as chairman and CEO of MGM Studios helped green-light such classic movies as "Network" and "Doctor Zhivago," has died. He was 85.Rosenfelt died Thursday at his Los Angeles home...
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Like every other kind of writer, humorists go ...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
Ex-MGM chief Rosenfelt dies
