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Article: Janet Maslin, 50, Quits The Times: Loved Eyes Wide Shut, Hated Gummo.(TheFrontPage)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- September 27, 1999
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Byline: Carl Swanson
After 22 years at The New York Times and too many bylines to count, film critic Janet Maslin is quitting. "I know this sounds impetuous," she said on Sept. 20, just before going off to screenings for the New York Film Festival. "But I've known this wasn't working for me and I didn't want to blow a fuse."
Ms. Maslin was the newspaper's second-string critic from 1977-1993, playing the wisecracking kid sister to the poker-faced Vincent Canby in those years. Now, after six years in the No. 1 job, she sounded a little burned out. "I just turned 50," she said. "That may have had some-thing to do with it. Ever heard of the phrase `midlife ...