The passionate and often-prickly critic included among her many platforms the "Today" show, where she held forth from 1963 to 1973 before being replaced by Gene Shalit's bad puns, and TV Guide, where she reviewed the prime time movie lineup (back when the OTA nets did movies in prime time besides Saturday night time-fillers--back when Saturday night was still a big TV night) every week for 22 years--Roger Ebert said that her success made other newspapers hire serious film critics: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/movies/judith-crist-film-critic-dies-at-90.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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