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Hey Rex Reed, Hope You're Happy!

Mark Graham — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:30:00 EDT

We have noted the ridiculously mean-spirited SATC review that curmudgeonly queen Rex Reed wrote for the NY Observer on these pages before. However, we have never printed the offending opening graf here on these pages, but seeing as how SJP had her beauty-mark lasered off sometime in the last few weeks (it wasn't just makeup, after all), it seems that the time is right:

There’s nothing wrong with Sarah Jessica Parker that couldn’t be cured by wart-removal surgery. That growth on her face just gets bigger with every close-up, and in the full-length movie version of Sex and the City it’s so distracting you can’t concentrate on anything else. It’s not a beauty mark. I guess you can’t tell a co-producer anything, but listen up, girl. At this point, you would make a wonderful Halloween witch.

Even though it's nearly two months later, we're still just as flabbergasted as we were the day that we first read this. It's one thing that this quote got written in the first place, but what really irks us is that this bilious diatribe actually got past an editor and actually made it into print. Congrats, gents ... hope you sleep tight tonight!

Rex Reed Gives Reader a Good Review

Richard Lawson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:11:39 EDT

Rascally old blurb machine Rex Reed was spotted by a reader while Reed was, uh, spotting him: "Shoplifting elderly movie critic Rex Reed cruised me yesterday afternoon on that super long escalator at the 53rd and Lex E/V subway station. I was going up; he was going down! I don't know what's scarier - the fact that I was cruised by Rex Reed or the fact that I can recognize him." Ohhh Rexy...

Could Tom Cruise Make It Past Morals Police On Dakota Board?

abalk2 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:50:45 EST

Should Tom Cruise decide to purchase a pied terre in the Dakota—an event, sadly, more longed for than likely; a source tells us that "Tom prefers the Carlyle"—he'd face some fairly strict scrutiny. A tipster explains who does and doesn't get into the Dakota:

Does Cruise have Board approval to buy a place? There are two types of apartments in the Dakota: large luxury spaces with many rooms, and smaller apartments with high ceilings and beautiful woodwork but no bigger than 800 or 1000 square feet. Some of these are owned by moderately successful Wall Street types, but they tend to have strong representation on the board.

One board member is known to brag about how he was one of the people who turned down Carly Simon (too high-maintenance) and Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas. The board member made his decision after looking at Griffith's website, where she discusses her sex life. In his eyes, this made her disreputable. In addition, the couple wanted to buy an apartment on the ground floor (which would attract paparazzi). Also? She had been married to Don Johnson. [We actually find this objection kind of reasonable. -Ed.]
This was the same summer that the board member held a courtyard party to which invitees were informed that they were allowed to bring their wives, but not their girlfriends. How virtuous the Dakota board!

Well, if he really were to apply, we're sure someone of Cruise's firm moral staure would be a shoo-in for approval. And, really, who would dare block the possibility of Tom sharing space with eminent film critic and Dakota resident Rex Reed? Those would be some super elevator rides!

New Co-op for Soup Executive [NYT, second item]
Earlier: TomKat To Make Love And Art Inside The Dakota?

Rex Reed Oddly Unmoved By Jamie Foxx's Rippling Back

abalk2 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:25:33 EDT

While Edelstein and Scott may have been swept away by Miami Vice, Observer film critic Rex Reed is decidedly less enthusiastic, calling the picture "crummy, pointless, and brain dead." Why such a disproportionate reaction? Perhaps Reed found director Michael Mann's visual style too hard-charging. He might have been offended by the script's frank, racist language. Or, you know, maybe he was just having a bad day.

On the Town [NYO]
Earlier: Aging Film Critic Baffled By Newfangled Seating Technology

Aging Film Critic Baffled By Newfangled Seating Technology

abalk2 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:50:38 EDT

Blogger Josh Horowitz went to a screening of Miami Vice the other night and lived through the kind of experience that those of us who have an inexplicable hatred for certain elderly film critics can only dream of. Josh?

My eyes were now trained on an older gentleman sprawled out across a few seats. As near as I can tell he had been trying to crawl over one seat to get into the empty one behind me. In the middle of said stealth operation the man got BOTH OF HIS LEGS CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THE SEATS. There he was groaning and wheezing, struggling to free his legs as if his very life depended on it (I was there-it did). He was sprawled in such a way that he was clutching the back of my seat for support hence my necessary involvement in this emergency. It was then that I realized that the gentleman in this unfortunate predicament was Rex Reed.

It gives nothing away to tell you that Rex is eventually liberated from his cushiony prison, but do read on for the whole inspiring tale. Unfortunately, there's no word on whether or not Reed walked out with the seat.

Fudge Exclusive! Rex Reed Nearly Dies Right Behind Me!!! [Better Than Fudge]