TS: Ralph Reed or Rex Reed

http://www.betterthanfudge.com/?p=757

no-talent dipshit

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/08/rex_reed_a_career_of_offensiveness/

haha, this is actually otm about Darjeeling Limited:

It all smacks of incest and sinks in a puddle of sluggish superficiality.

the batman quote in that salon piece has always been one of my favorite rexies:

“The Dark Knight” takes up where it left off, but if it’s a follow-up that introduces a comprehensive sociopath called the Joker, then how do you explain the fact that the Joker made his debut years ago as Jack Nicholson? It’s just one of the things that makes no sense, but hey-ho, since when did Batman and logic morph?

(yes i collect these)

also in the files

In every film, Mr. Sandler looks more retarded, but never mind.

As much as I hated Avatar, Ms. Saldana looked better painted blue.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a monumental achievement—not only one of the best films of the year, but one of the greatest films ever made.

aaaaaaand

Ninety-nine percent of the world's moviegoers are either ignorant, indifferent or just plain confused by everything African—including where it is (I still can't tell the Tutsi refugees from the Hutu militia).

well it's an easy continent to miss

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g. In re: to your review, I never realized that a flaming gay man could be misogynistic. Turns out...I was wrong

Ha... that Africa quote needs a grammar fix badly. I like Rex Reed, though. He's one of the last working critics who was weaned on classic Hollywood and still expects movie stars to be photogenic. Granted, one wonders how he would describe Oliver Hardy, say. Anyway, John Simon said much worse things about actresses' looks and was rewarded with decades of employment at New York magazine.

Mary McCarthy isn't bothered by the insults I bet. Being married to a critic like Edmund Wilson prepared her fo

John Simon knows something about film, though.

Yeah, and about other art forms too. Rex Reed is probably better read as a semi-humorist/critic. His collection Big Screen, Little Screen is full of hilariousness and his show bizzy essay collections (Conversations in the Raw is one) are juicy and readable. But this vehement response to the McCarthy comments seems to indicate a change in what we permit critics to say, which is kind of interesting.

http://i.imgur.com/ucOES5W.jpg

Useless.

rex reed is classic for his 'appearance' in Lost in America

“The Dark Knight” takes up where it left off, but if it’s a follow-up that introduces a comprehensive sociopath called the Joker, then how do you explain the fact that the Joker made his debut years ago as Jack Nicholson? It’s just one of the things that makes no sense, but hey-ho, since when did Batman and logic morph?

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/60216/1439515-0330chewbacca_super.jpg

Rex cut loose by the NY Observer

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/rex-reed-fired-new-york-observer-jared-kushner-1201834665/

He sucks, but I assumed he died years ago.

(Whereas I just wish Ralph Reed died years ago)

Rex Reed at home!

“Some of these young critics have never seen a black-and-white movie,” he said. “Have they even seen ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’?”....

For decades, he has reviewed for The New York Observer, a once-influential peach-colored broadsheet newspaper for Manhattan elites that, after shape-shifting several times during a decade of ownership by Jared Kushner, is now a web-only property, Observer.com.

In the spring, headlines announced that Mr. Reed was included in a round of layoffs there. In fact, the there was no formal termination, since Mr. Reed is a freelancer, and when a new editor, Merin Curotto, took over shortly afterward, bringing him back was a top priority. “He isn’t for everyone,” Ms. Curotto said. “Great talents usually aren’t.”

Indeed, Mr. Reed prides himself on bucking the tide of popularity, decreeing “The Shape of Water,” which got a 93 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, ”a loopy, lunkheaded load of drivel.” (In the kind of error that used to be fish wrap but now lives forever on the internet, he also misidentified the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro as the Puerto Rican-born actor Benicio Del Toro, misspelling his name “Benecio” as a bonus)....

“When I was first admitted to the New York Film Critics Circle, you would go to a conference room and you would intelligently debate film with Pauline Kael, Judith Crist, Vincent Canby,” he said. “You go now, and honestly, if you have white hair, you’re over the hill. They don’t believe that you can even understand the kind of movies that they like. It’s very true. I don’t understand. I mean, they’re voting for James Franco. How more absurd can life get than that?”

“Unfortunately, we have me, who lived through all that good stuff, and remembers it,” he said. “So kill me already, you know?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/style/who-is-rex-reed.html

hey now that Franco movie is excellent. better than a Street Car Named Whatever

yeah all the under-50s i know in the NYFCC, not one has seen a b&w film