- published: 25 Mar 2013
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Kyle Smith (born 1966) is an American critic, novelist and essayist. He is a staff film critic for the New York Post. His film reviewing style has been called "an exercise in hilarious hostility" by Entertainment Weekly and he has been dubbed "America's most cantankerous film critic" by The Atlantic. He has also contributed to The Wall Street Journal,People magazine,New York magazine, The New York Times, and The Weekly Standard.
Smith was graduated from East Longmeadow (Massachusetts) High School in 1984. Following that, he was graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and is a former U.S. Army lieutenant and veteran of the Persian Gulf War. From 1996 to 2005 he worked at People magazine, where he was the editor of the book and music reviews.
Kyle Smith has published two books in addition to criticism, newspaper and magazine features and essays.
His first book, Love Monkey, a comic novel about a cynical, self-deprecating journalist named Tom Farrell and his romantic tribulations in New York City, was published by William Morrow in 2004. A New York Times article cast the book as a guys' version of such popular novels as Bridget Jones's Diary and Melissa Bank's, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and cited Nick Hornby's books About a Boy and High Fidelity as inspiration for Love Monkey. Times critic Janet Maslin called the book "hilarious".Entertainment Weekly called the book "relentlessly cynical" and concluded that "'Monkey,' like the paper Tom writes for, is loud and brash, but a helluva lot of fun".Time magazine said, "You couldn't ask for a more entertaining drinking buddy--watch out for a memorable strip-club meltdown scene--but there's a deep, dark subway of despair running underneath his riffs, and that's what makes the book more than a standup routine....'Love Monkey' nails it."
Actors: James Page (editor), James Page (producer), Kevin McDonagh (producer), Amelia Tyler (actress), Emma Grove (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Bratt (actress), Andrea Cobham (actress), Peter Glover (actor), Mark Breeze (actor), David Hoare (actor), Chloe Mander (actress), Luke Rufo (writer), Luke Rufo (director), Katherine Page (miscellaneous crew), Annalies Butter (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A funny and gritty film following 6 twenty-somethings as they work behind the bar on a boring Wednesday night in a dank pub in Birmingham. Their relationships change as they gradually realize they didn't know each other as well as they thought.
Keywords: alcohol, dosser, loser, one-word-title, pub, wasterApril in Paris
Chestnuts in blossoms
Holiday tables
Under the trees
April in Paris
This is a feeling
No one can ever
Reprieve
I never knew the charm of spring
Never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
Never missed a warm embrace
'Til April in Paris
Whom can I run to
What have you done to
My heart...
I never knew the charm of spring
Never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
Never missed a warm embrace
'Til April in Paris
Whom can I run to
What have you done to