May 2026

On February 12, 2022, I interviewed Rex Reed in his apartment for my podcast about aging showbiz legends, “The Originals.” Though I’d worked for the New York Observer in the late nineties, I’d never met Rex or seen him before in the flesh—like fellow columnist Peter Bogdanovich, he wisely steered clear of the grubby, overcrowded […]

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I first heard the name Rex Reed when I was about eight years old, and he arrived in Baton Rouge to write about the making of a film. Rex was considered a hometown success story, having graduated from Louisiana State University and having had crosses burned on his lawn after he wrote a scathing editorial