REX REED: A REMEMBRANCE
I'm sorry to note the passing of Rex Reed. He was 87. And it's startling for me to write that he was 87, because to me he was always the handsome, dashing young man about town whom I first met decades ago. (That's why I'm posting a couple of publicity photos of him when he was younger, as well as one from more recent years, along with a snapshot of Rex, taken a few years ago, with several cabaret stars he liked very much: KT Sullivan, Joyce Breach, and Jeff Harnar.) I liked Rex. Oh, he could be quite acerbic in reviews, if he didn't like a film or a concert, or a cabaret show. And he cultivated a public image of being a curmudgeon. But if he liked you--and we always got along great--he was a pussycat. [more]