Jeff Simon
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Buffalo, NY, United States
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Jeff Simon: From revenge comedy to a jazzy take on the Beatles, this column has something for everyone
Jeff Simon shares a miscellany of ways he's spent his time lately. → Read More
Jeff Simon: It took me far too long to understand the genius of Burt Bacharach
Were there any Top 40 musical valentines ever purer than "Close to You" and "The Look of Love"? → Read More
Jeff Simon: 'Criminal Minds' is back and is bringing with it TV's Era of Restoration
Preservation has turned into the newest algorithm in the online universe. Cancel culture is waning, writes Simon. → Read More
Jeff Simon: A pair of aging Hollywood film legends are right at home in the streaming universe
We do things a lot better in the streaming era. → Read More
Jeff Simon: In celebration of TCM's embrace of films that are more memorable than classic
Simon reveals the worst movie he's seen in at least 10 years. → Read More
Jeff Simon: Joni Mitchell returned to Newport and the tears flowed everywhere
Mitchell's appearance at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday night was her first there since 1969. → Read More
Jeff Simon: Frank Capra taught 'misdirection as a way of life.' The lesson is still being learned
Almost no one disputes that "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" is a classic American movie. What few people know is a lot of its background and history. → Read More
Jeff Simon: An unlikely trio of entertainers bring great productions to the small screen
Let me tell you about this season's unlikeliest trio of premium TV heroes: Jeff Bridges, Emma Thompson and Adam Sandler. Only chronological and professional happenstance could possibly have thrown those → Read More
Jeff Simon: I almost ignored the Watergate-era miniseries 'Gaslit.' That would have been a terrible mistake
" 'Gaslit' is the best thing I've seen on TV all year," Simon says. → Read More
Jeff Simon: At almost 60, Tom Cruise proves there's still such a thing as 'a movie star'
What I still tend to like about your work is that with all your surreal boyishness, you've never shied away from the facts of aging and mortality, Simon says of → Read More
Jeff Simon: In Buffalo, we will always be defined by our soul, not by the racist who tried to divide us
There IS something altogether remarkable about this city. What has always seemed to characterize it to me is a soulfulness that is well beyond what is familiar elsewhere. → Read More
Jeff Simon: From Carlin to Letterman, comedians have always lived with the loathing
Standup comics have been living with an audience seething ever since the art form came to exist. Make jokes to any group anywhere and someone of choleric temperament may well → Read More
Jeff Simon: At age 50, 'The Godfather' still looks and feels brand-new
The art of motion pictures triumphed and took American movies to places it had never really been before, Simon says. → Read More
Jeff Simon: 'The First Lady' on Showtime looked like a winner ... until it didn't
"Here's MY game plan for watching the thing: DVR'ing it weekly and using the fast forward liberally until each of life's greatest hits shows up and the periods of heedless → Read More
Jeff Simon: Was no one looking out for the best interests of Bruce Willis?
"Willis always has got an edge to him, whether he's chortling with Aiello or delivering lines with a sweet, gentle softness that few of his contemporaries could come close to." → Read More
Jeff Simon: It's not a year for a top 10 list, but there were several movies worth seeing
Here, in a year, when the most ardent movie lovers have reasons to worry about the survival of an art form they dearly love, is a list of some much-praised → Read More
Buffalo can revel in role it plays in taut monster party 'A Quiet Place Part II'
We've all fought family battles on behalf of quietude for those we love. Here's another cannily made 90-minute movie about folks whose enemy is another species' monstrous hearing. → Read More
A return to Woodstock with Dale Anderson, Jeff Simon and Jeff Miers –
News staffer Dale Anderson, longtime Arts Editor Jeff Simon, who covered Woodstock for The News, and current Pop Music Critic Jeff Miers discuss Woodstock on it… → Read More
Jeff Simon: Al Wright, the man who redrew Buffalo's cultural map
Alvin Wright redrew the cultural map of the city of Buffalo. As much as anyone, he democratized Buffalo culture and commerce. No one has ... → Read More
The spectacles between covers of a great magazine and a great photographer
NONFICTION The Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant 50 Years of New York by the editors of New York Magazine → Read More