Cinema: Show Fizz ONLY WHEN I LAUGH

Directed by Glenn Jordan Screenplay by Neil Simon

ONLY WHEN I LAUGH Directed by Glenn Jordan Screenplay by Neil Simon It's been coming for some time, but with the release of Only When I Laugh one can make the statement definitive: Neil Simon has ceased to be a relatively harmless, relatively cheerful pop entertainment phenomenon. He is now an imposition—and a tedious one at that.

In this instance he has chosen to abuse the power that has flowed to him as the most commercially successful playwrightscenarist in human history not only by fobbing off a retitled and rewritten version of his old demi-flop show, The Gingerbread Lady, but also by...

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