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UPDATE: A tribute to Gene Shalit will air on Thursday on Today.
Gene Shalit will be leaving NBC’s Today show where he has been a fixture for the past 40 years. Shalit will make his final appearance (for now) on the top-rated morning program on Thursday. Shalit joined Today in 1970 as a regular contributor until he replaced Joe Garagiola in 1973 as arts editor and critic focusing on movie reviews and celebrity interviews. “Gene is not just a ‘Today’ show treasure but a television legend and an American icon,” Today executive producer Jim Bell said. “We salute him for his unprecedented 40-year run on a single television program, a feat unlikely to ever be matched.” Said Shalit, “It’s enough already.”
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Not to be callous, but I thought he was dead already. I haven’t seen The Today Show in almost 10 years, but even then I thought he had retired. He, and all movie critics, are completely irrelevant anyway. Especially when studios quote anybody in their ads, from non-critic feature writers, to segment producers, or they just make them up.
First, Mary Hart, now this. (*SIGH*) What “celebrity” far advanced into decrepitude will be next? Chris Berman? Wolf Blitzer? Jeff Foxworthy? (No, sorry, it’s his SHTICK that’s old…)
The irony, of course, is that many of us will actually PAY $14 to see “Walk With Dinosaurs” when Fox distributes it…
Yeah, it was ‘enough already’ about 20 years ago.
Hey the jerk store called, they’re all out of commenters…
I, for one, thought he was great…best of luck Gene
Who is gene shalit again? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him.
He was awful for a very long time.
Many of you weren’t even born when Gene Shalit was in his heyday. Always off-beat and usually with bad ties, Shalit was really one of the first of his kind. I’m not sure he was ever great, but he was entertaining at a time when there was little competition. Good luck, Gene.
Shalit has been a film and book critic for 40 years and he thinks it is enough, he done his work well and considered as an icon.
Add me to the list of people who think he should have retired years ago. On the rare instances when I did catch one of his reviews it was like watching my 89 year old uncle trying to be amusing describing how he was out of stool softener.
“Hi I’m Frenchy, the man you love to hate!”
Heh, loved that bit.