Legendary movie and entertainment critic and regular on the Today Show Gene Shalit died this weekend at the age of 100. Tributes to Shalit and the amazing way that he had with words and puns in his film reviews have been all over the media in the days following his death ("Ishtar ishterrible"), and they are great fun to read.
Tis post will be my story of one of his reviews that sticks in my mind. It was in 1977 for the Paul Newman hockey movie "Slap Shot". Shalit didn't care much for the movie and I remember happening to be watching the Today Show when he said:
"Slap Shot is has an R rating, which means that no one under 18 can see this movie unless accompanied by a parent. Any parent that would take a kid to this movie deserves to be slapped. Or shot!"
How great was that?
RIP Gene Shalit.
