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their opinions known. Critic is an odd job description, to be sure. And misunderstood even by some of its practitioners. Critics, in the view of most people, exist for two reasons. One is to pass judgment. Rudely, if possible. The other is to function as a consumer guide, advising people what they should or shouldn t spend their money on. Hence the star ratings (introduced by the Michelin restaurant guides in 1926), the awarding of tomatoes, bullets, popcorn boxes, and those thumbs-up, thumbs-down pronouncements. It is as a consumer reporter that critics have less so, in recent years a niche in newspapers. And it is in this capacity that they are tolerated by their natural enemy, the artists. I am essential to the theater as ants are to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field, says Addison DeWitt, the quintessential snide critic, in the film All About Eve. ....
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I didn’t think it was possible for an EGOT winner to be an underdog. Mike Nichols had a Grammy when he was 31, a Tony when he was 33, and an Oscar when he was 36. The Emmy didn’t come until he was 70, but to make up for lost time he snatched up two in one year and, shortly thereafter, another two. Contemporary improvisational comedy (i.e., comedy) would not be the same without him, nor would Broadway theater, and he directed at least one film people will still be talking about maybe celebrating, maybe scorning, but certainly talking about in half a century. ....