Rex Reed

Rex Taylor Reed (born October 2, 1938) is an American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies. He currently writes the column "On the Town with Rex Reed" for The New York Observer.

Life and career

Reed was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Jewell (née Smith) and James M. Reed, an oil company supervisor."Rex Reed". Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006

He has also acted occasionally, as in the movie version of Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge. Reed has also appeared in the films Inchon! and Superman (as himself). Reed was also a regular on the TV show The Gong Show in the late '70s. Reed also served on the jury at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival in 1971. He has also guest voiced as himself on the animated series The Critic.

Rex Reed appears in the 2009 documentary The Story of American Film Criticism explaining how important film critics were in the 1970s, and complaining about the proliferation of unqualified critical voices on the Internet. at the TCM Movie Database

Reed is good friends with gossip columnist Liz Smith.Tribune Media Services via Buffalo News, June 9, 2006He is a member of New York Film Critics Circle and, because his reviews appear on the Internet, he...
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