- Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern is the film critic for
The Wall Street Journal .His movie reviews appear each Friday in the "Weekend & Leisure" section of the newspaper, and he writes a column about the movie industry which appears in the paper every other Saturday. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115887849571770606.html?mod=hps_us_at_glance_wj] "About Joe Morgenstern" sidebar on the Web page where his reviews appear at the Web site of the
Wall Street Journal , accessedSeptember 22 ,2006 ]Morgenstern is based in
Santa Monica, California . He joined the "Journal" in 1995. He was a foreign correspondent for theNew York Times before becoming a theater and movie critic for theNew York Herald Tribune in 1959. In 1965 he became a movie critic forNewsweek , then a columnist for theLos Angeles Herald Examiner from 1983 to 1988. Morgenstern's television scripts include "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble " and some episodes of "Law & Order". He co-founded theNational Society of Film Critics .He received a
Pulitzer Prize in 2005, making him only the third film critic ever to win a Pulitzer for criticism, afterRoger Ebert of theChicago Sun-Times andStephen Hunter ofThe Washington Post .Morgenstern is the former husband of actress
Piper Laurie .Morgenstern is a 1953 graduate of
Lehigh University .Notes
External links
* [http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2005/criticism/bio/ Bio on Pulitzer Prize Site]
* [http://www3.lehigh.edu/News/news_story.asp?iNewsID=1253&strBack=%2Fnews%2Fnews%5Farchive%2Easp%3FiStoryType%3D18 "Joe Morgenstern '53: Pulitzer winner is essayist at heart"] from the Lehigh University Alumni Bulletin
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