Word: langfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with seemingly boundless enthusiasms. Susan Granger, who reviews for Connecticut's WICC radio and is now syndicated on about 100 stations, has lured moviegoers with passionate quotes for everything from Consenting Adults ("spine-tingling, disturbing, sexy, seductive!") to Forever Young ("a heart grabber that lifts the spirit"). Joanna Langfield, whose radio feature The Movie Minute is carried on 75 stations, is not far behind her in fervor and omnipresence...
...supplies copies of all her reviews in advance because the studio publicists would not be able to see them otherwise. "I feel I owe them a review, bad or good or mediocre," she says. "I don't consider it a problem because I treat all films the same way." Langfield insists that it is the studios' publicity tactics, not her reviewing, that have changed since she started in 1980. "Back then you never got a phone call from a publicist asking what you thought of the movie, or whether you had a review you could send over...
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