>Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, dies at 91
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/26/entertainment/neil-simon-playwright-dies/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180826210003/https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/26/entertainment/neil-simon-playwright-dies/
He was old, but the wiki bio says
>Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, in The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents.
>he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond
>"I think part of what made me a comedy writer is the blocking out of some of the really ugly, painful things in my childhood and covering it up with a humorous attitude … do something to laugh until I was able to forget what was hurting."
>His nephew is U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon and niece-in-law is U.S. Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici
Pretty much any direction we dig is the fetid smell of corruption and no doubt this mensch was doubleteaming 8 yr olds with Brooks and Reiner.
>tfw the swamp is draining itself