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I watched something about this one time on tv a long time ago. The film studios were gathering up "film critics" from local news shows and radio shows, small town paper critics, nobodys like that, then setting them up in a 4 star hotel in LA or NY, then buying them a big dinner and showing them the movie, with suggestions that if they "like" it, they may be asked to attend another screening....
So context means very little when Jerry from East Bumfucked gets to have surf and turf 3 times a year for free because he thinks all of Newline's new horror "classics" are "Great, scarier than the Exorcist".
During the same report, Roger Ebert said he was a superior (read: "The only Qualified") critic, because he actually wrote a movie.
:rolleyes:
He wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. I hardly think that makes him an oscar-worthy screenwriter...
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