Gene Shalit
Gene Shalit was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 25th, 1926 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 98, Gene Shalit biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Eugene Shalit (born March 25,1926) is an American film and book critic.
He appeared on NBC's The Today Show from January 15, 1973, after starting part-time in 1970 and retiring on November 11, 2010.
He is well-known for his pundiness, his oversized handlebar moustache, fuzzy hair, and his colorful bowties.
Early life and education
Shalit was born in New York City and raised in Newark and Morristown, New Jersey,. He wrote a humor column for the school newspaper, which Gannett has described as "The Korn Krib." Shalit is of Jewish origins.
Shalit worked with The Daily Illini for six years at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (1943-1949).
Personal life
Shalit was married to Nancy Lewis from 1950 until her death from cancer in 1978. He spent a large portion of his life in Leonia, New Jersey, but as of 2012, he was listed as a resident of Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Willa Shalit, an artist and entrepreneur, is one of Nancy Lewis' and Gene Shalit's children. Peter Shalit, a physician and acknowledged authority on gay men's health and living with HIV, is another child. Emily, their daughter, died of ovarian cancer in November 2012.
After falling asleep at the wheel, Shalit crashed his car in Lenox, Massachusetts, on October 24, 2012. After he promised to stop driving until the dismissal, and to follow a "safety protocol" approved by his attorney and the police chief, misdemeanor charges of negligent driving to endanger were later dropped.
Career
Shalit, according to a New York Times Magazine interview of Dick Clark, was Clark's press agent in the early 1960s. Shalit reportedly "stopped representing" Clark during a Congressional investigation of payola. Clark never spoke to Shalit again, and referred to him as a "jellyfish".
Shalit has been involved in reviewing the arts since 1967 and has written for such publications as Look magazine, Ladies' Home Journal (for 12 years), Cosmopolitan, TV Guide, Seventeen, Glamour, McCall's, and The New York Times. From 1970 to 1982 he broadcast a daily essay on NBC Radio "Man About Anything", that was carried on more stations than any other NBC network radio feature.
In 1986, Shalit hosted a videocassette and laserdisc collection from MCA Home Video, Gene Shalit's Critic's Choice Video. Four images (five on the laserdisc covers) of Shalit appeared in a filmstrip on the front of the box with his reviews on the back. Titles included Touch of Evil, Destry Rides Again, Double Indemnity and The Ipcress File.
Shalit announced that he would leave The Today Show after 40 years, effective November 11, 2010. He was quoted as saying: "It's enough already," about his retirement. He has largely stayed out of the public eye since then, only appearing once for Willard Scott's retirement from NBC in 2015.
Shalit was criticized by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for his review of Brokeback Mountain in which he referred to Jake Gyllenhaal's character as a "sexual predator": GLAAD said Shalit's "baseless branding of Jack as a 'sexual predator' merely because he is romantically interested in someone of the same sex is defamatory, ignorant, and irresponsible" and that he "used the occasion to promote defamatory antigay prejudice to a national audience." His son Peter, who is gay, wrote a letter to GLAAD defending his father and said the organization had defamed him by "falsely accusing him of a repellent form of bigotry."