Andrew Sarris RIP

nope i am the guy in the columbia t-shirt pictured to the left of david johansen and identified in the caption.
https://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19790322-01.2.13&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22first+appearance+of+a+name+performer%22------

i have consderably less hair now though.

Nice hat!

That's great--so wish I had taken a course with him. (I started in the fall of '79 at the University of Toronto--Joe Medjuck, future producer of Stripes and Ghostbuster, was as prestigious as my film professors got.) One Steven Buchman has a long review of The China Syndrome underneath your photo. I assume he also took some film courses, maybe under Sarris--wonder if he went into the industry.

There's something I really love about Kauffmann's obituary. Feels like a bygone era (which it is). They were as far apart as two film critics could be, but he writes this eloquent obituary that really gets at something irreplaceable about Sarris. Celebrity obituaries are a cottage industry now--I think bloggers have them on file like the New York Times--but I find that one moving.

thanks -- i think i nicked the hat from my dad.

there's some interesting ephemera if you search the columbia spetator archives for andrew sarris, including an issue he apparently edited in 1946.

Maybe J-Ho is still mad at Sarris's NYFCC bathroom break.

Joe Medjuck, future producer of Stripes and Ghostbuster

Before Ghostbusters, there was a little-known 1981 independent film called Ghostbuster; three-and-a-half hours chronicling the humdrum life of Bill Murray's character when he wasn't on duty.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53226a32e4b0a11842c6876f/1527981855725-A1SOKXMOC2AZMGB1YI59/1984-11-10-113.jpg
He was not even a real Ghostbuster!