| No one, except the New York Times, seems to want to give Rex Reed any credit for revolutionizing the show business profile from a dry as dust article to a zippy, gossipy read that people used to look forward to every Sunday. He then fashioned himself into a latter day Man Who Came to Dinner and made a very good living at it. There's enough schadenfreude in some of these comments to fill a year's worth of Hedda Hopper columns. |