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Vincent Canby [1924-2000] American
Rank: 102
Critic, Film critic


Vincent Canby was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 to 2000.


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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
102
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
103
His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
104
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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