I sat and watched Child up and down the deep end while I tried to explicate the plot of The Goodbye Girl. One can't complain about his innings, but still.

That may actually be the first Neil Simon I ever saw. I still admire the horror of Elliot's off-off-Broadway Richard III. "I was an Elizabethan fruit fly! I was the Betty Boop of Stratford-on-Avon. I was putrid. Capital P, capital U, capital TRID."