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Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson (2016) Gene Shalit, who delivered punny movie reviews on NBC’s Today Show from 1973 through 2010, passed away last week. He’d turned one hundred in March. “With his handlebar mustache, bushy hair, black horn-rimmed glasses, and extravagant bow ties, he was one of the nation’s most recognizable characters, a composite caricature of Groucho Marx, William Howard Taft, and a Jim Henson puppet,” writes Robert D. McFadden in the New York Times.A few years into his gig...