The Nation, April 20th, 1985
Has Neil Simon created something first-rate? It seems that way for a single brilliant moment in Biloxi Blues. Arnold Epstein, G.I. from New York City, arrives in Biloxi, Mississippi, for basic training. The man is so Jewish he' practically a knish-overintellectual, obstinate, proud, also pale, scrawny and big-nosed. Anti-Semitism can't help clinging to him. Ugly incidents occur. And when the drill sergeant stages a theft to test the platoon's discipline, Private Epstein inscrutably steps forward to confess the crime. He does this to confound the sergeant, to stage a rebellion, perhaps to dra...
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