Reed penned <\/a>flashy film reviews, celebrity profiles and interviews with Hollywood and Broadway stars, helping to define pop culture in real time. Some of his hit profiles detail the likes of \u201cEasy Rider\u2019s\u201d Peter Fonda, Barbra Streisand and Buster Keaton, though his most well-known is likely the one on Ava Gardner for Esquire in 1967.<\/p>\nReed wrote of how a tipsy Gardner, who was once married to Frank Sinatra, spoke of her ex-husband\u2019s subsequent marriage to Mia Farrow, \u201cHah! I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy,\u201d she said to him.<\/p>\n
In a profile the year prior for the New York Times, Reed took aim at Streisand for her extreme tardiness.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree-and-a-half hours late, she plods into the room, falls into a chair with her legs spread out, tears open a basket of fruit, bites into a green banana and says to the reporters, \u2018OK, you\u2019ve got 20 minutes,’\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
In addition to spending 13 years as the Daily News\u2019 arts critic, Reeds\u2019 writings were featured in GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair and Vogue as well as The New York Times. He has also penned film reviews and his \u201cTalk of the Town\u201d column for the New York Observer since the paper\u2019s inception in 1987, though he was briefly laid off in 2017 before being rehired later the same year.<\/p>\n
His final review for the Observer was for the film \u201cTruth & Treason\u201d in 2025.<\/p>\n
Reed additionally authored eight books, including his best-known, \u201cDo You Sleep in the Nude?,\u201d as well as \u201cConversations in the Raw,\u201d \u201cPeople Are Crazy Here\u201d and \u201cValentines & Vitriol.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the 1980s he served as co-host of the syndicated television program \u201cAt the Movies,\u201d and he was regularly a guest on the Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson talk shows, where he similarly offered his takes on Hollywood and Broadway. He even appeared in the gender-bending comedy \u201cMyra Breckinridge\u201d in which his character, Myron, transitioned to Raquel Welch\u2019s Myra.<\/p>\n
The movie was widely panned and Reed himself put it at the top of his own list of the 10 worst films of 1970.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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