and listened to its powerful a.m. radio stations. good evening ladies and gentlemen, it s midnight here in chicago long after midnight, i listened to jack broadcasting live. the world famous chatting with martin and lewis, rose mary cloon. i was an accepted as a ph.d. in english by a university of chicago, but i needed a job. i got a part-time job at the sun times, and then five months later, the film critic retired and they gave me the job. i did not apply for it. newspaper film critics had been interchangeable. some papers had bylines that different people wrote under, for example, ma tinee, and that could be whoever went to the movies that day because it really spelled out matinee. i was the youngest daily film critic in america, and it was a real good time to be a movie critic. armed robbery.