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  1. Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – September 15, 2000) 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 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there.

  2. Oct 16, 2000 · Vincent Canby, whose lively wit and sophisticated tastes illuminated film and theater reviews in The New York Times for more than 35 years, died yesterday at the Columbia-Presbyterian Center in...

  3. Vincent Canby column on his discovery, after seven years as theater critic, that Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway represent not just alternative New York theater but virtually the entire New...

  4. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Vincent Canby was born in Barrington and got his first newspaper job in 1948 on the old Chicago Journal of Commerce.

  5. Dec 17, 2020 · Dec. 17, 2020. Because of the pandemic, I have Vincent Canby’s desk. Millions of witty words must have drummed from his fingertips where I now slouch, stalled and mostly unproductive, without...

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  6. Oct 16, 2000 · Vincent Canby, who delivered trenchant insights, sober judgments and wry humor in film and theater reviews in The New York Times for more than 35 years, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 76.

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  8. Vincent Canby, the critic and writer who covered film and theatre for The New York Times — briefly holding the powerful position of chief theatre critic — died Oct. 15 at...

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