John Simon on Harold Pinter, Joseph Losey and John Simon

Critic JOHN SIMON reads an account of his own encounter with the great HAROLD PINTER and filmmaker JOSEPH LOSEY at a press conference over 40 years ago.

This is an excerpt from THEATER TALK's Remembrance of Pinter, premiering this week, which also features Simon's colleague in the Drama Critics' Circle, LINDA WINER.

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[atravis01]

John Simon: what a pompous ass. And what could be more nauseating than watching film reviewers fawn over one of their own? Pinter and Losey were artists who enriched the world. Simon is a parasite.

[ChuckHippy]

I think Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey where merely trying to get across the idea that interpretation should be in the audience's hands, it is not the writer's place to tell the audience what the story is about or what its meaning is.

[SayNoToPC]

John Simon totally rules. 50 years of brilliance.

[hooper450]

Thanks a lot for posting this, Pinter and Losey (and Sarris, too) are big favorites of mine.