SIMONIZED -- The Wit & Wisdom of John Simon- Page 4

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:58pm

Mr Simon is a legend - in his own mind

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 8:20pm

I didn't think he'd be as much of a f**cking bastard on broadway.com, but apparently I was wrong. What a hateful and homophobic annoying a**hole. I can't believe Mandelbaum was replaced with this subhuman critic:
On Liza with a Z-
"At age 26, Liza was only beginning to caricature herself, and her singing and dancing were accomplished enough. What militated against her was—is—her voracious compulsion to please, a performance consisting of almost wall-to-wall Sally Field moments. Disturbing, too, was her make-up, giving her face a celluloid-doll look, with hypertrophic eyelashes dispersing in all directions from eyes glistening like shiny marbles. Any moment, one feared, they would spill from their sockets and trip up the dancers."


"The DVD's addenda include an unfortunate symposium with Liza and her producers at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, where Showtime premiered the restoration. Unhelped by sixtyish Liza's truck-driver laugh and postwomanly girlishness, the event included a Q&A where every questioner, of whatever sex, seemed to come from a freak show.
This may be the answer to Liza's vast androgynous appeal. There is something outré, even outr"ageous, enough about her to make her a patron saint to every real or imagined misfit and outcast. It was detectably nascent already in the TV special: the camera, singly, can perhaps be made to lie; eightfold, it cannot even prevaricate."


"Otherwise, though, the best I can say for Liza is that she is or was almost as good as the immense brood of impersonators she has spawned."



Liza with a Z "review" Updated On: 4/4/06 at 08:20 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 8:59pm

Wit & Wisdom of John Simon ?

This is a trick question right ?