Rex Reed
| Rex Reed | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rex Taylor Reed October 2, 1938 Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
| Occupation | Film critic, writer |
| Years active | 1967–present |
Rex Taylor Reed (born October 2, 1938) is an American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies. He currently writes the column "On the Town with Rex Reed" for The New York Observer.
Reed was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 2, 1938, the son of Jewell (née Smith) and James M. Reed, an oil company supervisor. He earned his journalism degree from Louisiana State University in 1960.
In February 2000, Reed was arrested for shoplifting after leaving a Tower Records, in Manhattan, with compact discs by Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee, and Carmen McRae in his jacket pockets. Reed, who had just purchased two other CDs, says he forgot about the other three CDs and his offer to pay for them was refused. The charges were later dropped. According to Reed, several days after the arrest Peggy Lee sent him her entire catalog of CDs, because "she was so thrilled I wanted one of her CDs enough to put myself through so much hell."
He lives at the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Reed is good friends with gossip columnist Liz Smith.
Reed has acted occasionally, such as in the movie version of Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (1970). Reed also appeared in the films Superman (1978, as himself), Inchon (1981) and Irreconcilable Differences (1984), and was a regular on the TV show The Gong Show in the late 1970s. Reed additionally served on the jury at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival in 1971, and guest voiced as himself on the animated series The Critic.
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