Not a great critic, perhaps, but a great communicator of his love for movies, a champion of many good but neglected films, a supporter of obscure but worthy up-and-coming talent.
He was the guy at the barbershop who turns the conversation to the latest flick at the local movie theater and gets people jawing about it — so maybe in some ways more important to the culture than a great critic.
He turned the greatest show on earth into a circus of horrors — don’t you just hate people who do that?
With thanks to PZ for pointing me towards this wondrous poster . . .
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A student film project at UNCSA by my nephew Harry Rossi.
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