{"id":9288,"date":"2018-08-26T23:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T06:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2018-08-26T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T22:22:00","slug":"neil-simon-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/26\/neil-simon-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Simon Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/08\/26\/neil-simon-reportedly-dead-at-91.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Fox News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\">Neil Simon dead at 91<\/h1>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/m\/tyler-mccarthy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Tyler McCarthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/entertainment\/2018\/08\/26\/neil-simon-reportedly-dead-at-91\/_jcr_content\/article-text\/article-par-6\/inline_spotlight_ima\/image.img.jpg\/612\/344\/1535299558334.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 16: Neil Simon attends &quot;The Big Knife&quot; Broadway opening night at American Airlines Theatre on April 16, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski\/WireImage)\" width=\"480\" \/><em>(Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prolific American playwright Neil Simon has died at age 91.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as the first playwright to have a Broadway theater named after him, Simon\u2019s work dates back to \u201cCome Blow Your Horn\u201d in 1961 followed closely in 1963 with the success of his play \u201cBarefoot in the Park.\u201d Since then, he\u2019s won Tony Awards for shows \u201cThe Odd Couple,\u201d \u201cBiloxi Blues\u201d and \u201cLost in Yonkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In total, Simon wrote more than 30 plays and earned 17 Tony nominations with three wins. He also won a Tony for special achievement as well as a Pulitzer and the Mark Twain prize for humor. Of note is the fact that he had one Broadway season in 1966 in which four of his plays were running simultaneously:\u00a0&#8220;Barefoot in the Park&#8221;; &#8220;The Odd Couple&#8221;; &#8220;Sweet Charity&#8221;; and &#8220;The Star-Spangled Girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/08\/26\/neil-simon-reportedly-dead-at-91.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Fox News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Fox News Neil Simon dead at 91 By Tyler McCarthy (Getty Images) Prolific American playwright Neil Simon has died at age 91. Regarded as the first playwright to have a Broadway theater named after him, Simon\u2019s work dates back to \u201cCome Blow Your Horn\u201d in 1961 followed closely in 1963 with the success of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}