By Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Matty Simmons, a founder of the Diners Club credit card and Weight Watchers magazine who found his highest profile success after co-founding National Lampoon magazine and producing film offshoots including Animal House and the Vacation franchise, died Wednesday in Los Angeles following a brief, non-coronavirus-related illness.
He was 93. Simmons death was announced by his daughter Kate Simmons. “Yesterday I lost my hero,” Kate Simmons wrote on Instagram. “My dad had gone from the sharpest, healthiest 93 year old most people have encountered to abruptly having every imaginable issue except corona.” An author of nine books including the 2012 memoir Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Making of Animal
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