Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After sex the sparkle of their courtship evaporates, and Starting Over loses its appeal. Rather than give Reynolds the rein to flex his demonstrated talent for deadpan humor, Brooks script smothers him in pretentious sensitivity. Worse, the improbable plot twists like a Neil Simon rendition of The Courtship of Eddie's Father...
...basis of his testimony, as well as that of surviving victims, four killers - Jesse Cooks, Larry Green, Manuel Moore, J.C. Simon - are sentenced to life imprisonment, though Howard states that other Death Angels have murdered an estimated 270 white men, women and children in California and few have been apprehended. The four prisoners have subsequently shown no sign of repentance and in prison they have been troublemakers. Yet they are up for parole...
...CRITIC John Simon once called the death of Georg Buchner at the age of 24 conclusive proof of the nonexistence of God. Now God has a chance to reestablish himself: Andy Borowitz, who as president of the Lampoon bears responsibility...
...hours of punishment in Boston, There's Chris Clemenson: talent sometimes peeks its head out of the quicksand. You know you'll laugh and you know you'll sleep, and I advise you to ingest the sort of central nervous depressants that enhance both. Besides, who knows? Maybe John Simon will be there with his Luger...
There have been lawyer-detectives and priest-detectives and even jockey-detectives, but perhaps the most intriguing blend of workaday occupation and avocational sleuthing is Charles Paris, an invention of English Writer Simon Brett. Charles is an actor-detective, perhaps the first and last of his breed. Performers are generally too self-absorbed to be much use in searching other people's motives...