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In the mid-nineties, I was named arts and entertainment editor for NUVO. I inherited some fine writers but the movie reviewer at the time was not so fine. Within a week or two of my new appointment, Ed Johnson-Ott began to contact me. In those days it might have been emails or it might have been carrier pigeons, but the point was clear: “Jim, you need to replace your current movie reviewer with me.” Ed sent me that message numerous times. He sent me his clips. There was no doubt he was a better writer, but I was squeamish about firing a writer the minute I took on the job. It just d...