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Eugene Shalit (born March 25, 1926)〔 is an American film and book critic. He filled those roles on NBC's ''The Today Show'' from January 15, 1973, after starting part time in 1970,〔 until his retirement on November 11, 2010. He is known for his frequent use of puns, his oversized moustache, and for wearing colorful bowties. ==Career== He has been involved in reviewing the arts since 1967 and has written for such publications as ''Look'' magazine, ''Ladies' Home Journal'' (for 12 years), ''Cosmopolitan'', ''TV Guide'', ''Seventeen'', ''Glamour'', ''McCall's'', and ''The New York Times''. From 1970 to 1982 he had a daily essay on NBC Radio "Man About Anything", that was carried on more stations than any other NBC network radio feature.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gene Shalit )〕 In 1987, he published ''Laughing Matters: A Treasury of American Humor'', a critically praised humor anthology. Shalit's children include the artist and entrepreneur Willa Shalit. According to his official MSNBC bio, Shalit was born in a New York () on March 25, 1926, and eight days later arrived in Newark, New Jersey, in company of his mother. In 1932 he accompanied his family when they moved to Morristown, New Jersey. In Morristown High School he wrote the school paper’s humor column (prophetically called "The Broadcaster"), and narrowly escaped expulsion.〔 Born of Jewish parents, Shalit attended Morristown High School, where he wrote a humor column for the school newspaper.〔(Morristown at a glance ), Gannett Company. Accessed January 27, 2008. "Poet Joyce Kilmer once taught at Morristown High School, and film critic Gene Shalit got his start writing a humor column, 'The Korn Krib,' for the high school newspaper."〕 Gene Shalit wrote for ''The Daily Illini'' in six years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1943–1949). Shalit, according to a ''New York Times Magazine'' interview of Dick Clark, was Clark's press agent in the early 1960s. Shalit reportedly "stopped representing" Clark during a Congressional investigation of payola. Clark never spoke to Shalit again, and referred to him as a "jellyfish", an informal term for "a person without strong resolve or stamina". Shalit announced that he would leave ''The Today Show'' after 40 years, effective November 11, 2010. Of his decision, he was quoted as saying: "It's enough already". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gene Shalit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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