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Originally Posted by tector
I remember watching her as a kid on the Today Show, before that clown Gene Shalit took over. She was way classier. But TV had those kind of people on then--William F. Buckley, Dick Cavett, David Susskind, etc. The entertainment programming was largely dreck in those days, but they were not afraid to appear "elitist" on programs meant to engage your mind.
You can scour MSNBC, Fox News and CNN and not find anybody worthy to be compared to the likes of them.
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Concur completely. She was the film critic of choice in our house as well between 'Today' and her New York Magazine work... I think I recall her reviewing for Metromedia 5 News too. She was delightfully smart, funny and acerbic. As Roger Ebert has said for ages, everything in film criticism as entertainment derives from Judith Crist. Condolences to Steve; an apple that didn't fall far from the tree, but rolled into a different orchard.
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