Revisiting Joe Neumaier's Swanky Debut

A look back at how it all started for the recently laid off Daily News film critic.

JoeNeumaierNYDNFarewellOn Twitter, Joe Neumaier presents himself as ‘Newly Former Chief Film Critic & Film Editor at NY Daily News.’ Sadly, this is true.

That’s Neumaier on the right, bidding farewell to his colleagues last Thursday. This week, the veteran critic told Deadline’s Jeremy Gerard that the tabloid’s rush to embrace the Web at all costs is “like something out of a Paddy Chayefsky movie.” Or perhaps The Godfather, one of Neumaier’s personal favorites.

It all started for Neumaier at the Daily News in March of 2003.

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