It all started so innocently. Michael Sragow, the newly announced film critic for the Orange County Register, was minding his own Tribune Co. business in Baltimore when he received an email.
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“Someone forwarded to me an alt-weekly article that was sort of making fun of the new ownership for concentrating on the print product,” Sragow tells FishbowlLA via telephone. (Though he could not remember the specifics, it sounded very much to us like the OC Weekly handiwork of Gustavo Arellano.) “I actually thought, ‘That’s a pretty smart idea’”
“I got in touch with the editors, who directed me to the job posting,” he continues. “Just the way they were talking about the position, and how they wanted someone who could talk about a wide range of movies past and present… It was so unusual in today’s world of cultural journalism that I really jumped at it.”
Sragow, scheduled to officially start in March, is headed our way this weekend to begin the search for a new place to live. He and wife Glenda are also getting ready to sell their home in Baltimore, where he has worked since 2001 for the Sun newspaper.
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