Then came one more summer break: after an editorial changeover at the 
magazine, I started writing on books, TV and movies for the thriving 
alternative weeklies (first The Real Paper in Cambridge, then The Boston
 Phoenix). In the summer of 1976, Joe Morgenstern, now the 
Pulitzer-prize-winning film critic for the Wall Street Journal, was in 
Boston with his then-wife, Piper Laurie, who was acting in a film about 
Margaret Sanger for PBS’ “Nova.” Unbeknownst to me, Joe started reading 
my stuff. When, nearly two years later, editor Jim Bellows offered him 
the movie critic slot at The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Morgenstern 
didn’t want it himself – but he thought this guy he’d read in Boston 
just might. I flew to L.A. and I got the job.
source = baltimor blog
September 14, 2011
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