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After picking up a Master’s degree from Columbia, Slavitt moved into the professional world. In 1958, he was hired as a film critic for Newsweek—or, as he describes it, a “flicker picker...
...It’s every English major’s dumb idea,” Slavitt says. “I can always go to New York and review books and novels for Time or Newsweek...
...You’re the third most important reviewer in the world just because of your position,” Slavitt says, recalling his experience as a critic...
...never his intention to make a career of thumbs-up, thumbs-down. Slavitt said he commuted to film screenings on the same train as Bosley Crowther, The New York Times’ now-legendary longtime critic and also a Westchester resident...
...thought, how humiliating,” Slavitt said. “This man is a living joke and doesn’t understand it.” He recalls attending Frankie Avalon movies and being disgusted by the profession...