Last of the Red Hot Lovers is one of the most amusing of Neil Simon? s comedies. It focuses on Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old owner of a seafood restaurant who is afraid that the sexual revolution of the 1960? s is passing him by. Over the space of nine months, he invites three different women to his mother? s Manhattan apartment in an attempt to have an afternoon of extramarital sex. None of the affairs is consummated, however, and Barney decides after the last one that he would prefer a romantic afternoon with his wife, Thelma.