You're talking about Eleanor Ringel-Gillespie? She was the main AJC critic for years. She was truly a "Southern lady" in appearance and manner. I did often wonder at her reviewing films like "Boyz in the Hood" and the like.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:44:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Curtain closes on "At the Movies" Mr Worf, we had a woman here in Atlanta who used to review movies for the AJC. Keith will probably remember her name before I will, because I couldn't stand reading her column. It was clear that she didn't like many of the movies she was sent to review. It felt, at times, like a Tea Party assessment of President Obama's job performance. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: The problem with movie critics is that you will find someone that loves heavy foreign dramas trying to review an action film. The person will probably not like 99% of action movies and pan the movie. That doesn't give the film justice. There was a couple of critics in San Francisco like that. One was an older woman that loved stuff like Fried Green Tomatoes why did they try to send her to review the Matrix or a Bruce Willis film? On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: That in part, Mr Worf. I also see, as a problem with the show, was the hosts' seeming desire to find the next "GWTW" in every movie that came across their screens (a MAJOR reason why I don't like critics), whereas "Rotten Tomatoes" uses regular people as reviewers, who aren't of the artsy mold as critics. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: I think that shows like that are good to have. I watch the Rotten Tomatoes show on Current tv pretty regularly. I think the problem with S&E's show is that they didn't find hosts that were as interesting as S&E to fill their shoes. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Kelwyn < ravena...@yahoo.com > wrote: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/03/disneyabc-to-cancel-at-the-movies-siskel-and-eberts-old-show.html Disney-ABC cancels 'At the Movies,' Siskel and Ebert's old show Share | "At the Movies" is fading to black after 24 seasons. The cancellation will bring down the curtain on the Chicago-based nationally syndicated TV showcase for dueling film critics that traced its lineage to WTTW-Ch. 11's mid-1970s pairing of the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert and Tribune's Gene Siskel. Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Media Productions finally yelled cut Wednesday, announcing the final show with current reviewers Michael Phillips of the Tribune and A.O. Scott of the New York Times will air the weekend of Aug. 14. It was anything but a surprise ending. ------------------------------------ Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo ! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
