Rex Reed
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.
Life
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.
