Post Vet V.A. 'Vinnie' Musetto Dies at Age 74

Longtime editor and film critic was battling pancreatic cancer.

It was Joe Pompeo who had the scoop two years ago, when New York Post old-timer V.A. Musetto was nudged off the freelance film reviewer rolls. And it is Pompeo once again, today, who has the very sad news of the 74-year-old newspaper man’s passing early this morning:

The cause was pancreatic cancer, Musetto’s daughter, Carly VanTassell, told Capital. He had entered end-of-life care at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx recently after receiving a sudden diagnosis…

In a brief phone interview, VanTassell recalled accompanying her father to the Post’s newsroom when she was a kid and seeing him stand on his desk yelling out headline ideas.

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