Neal Gabler

Neal Gabler
Born	USA
Education	University of Michigan (summa cum laude)
Occupation	Journalist, Writer, Broadcaster
Employer	University of Southern California
Known for	Novels, journalism, political commentary, film reviews

Neal Gabler is a professor, journalist, author, film critic^[1] and political commentator.^[2]

He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in film and American culture.^[3]

Career

Journalist

He has also contributed to numerous publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, Vogue, American Heritage, The New Republic, Us, and Playboy. He has appeared on many television programs, including The Today Show, CBS Morning News, The News Hour, Entertainment Tonight, Charlie Rose, and Good Morning America. Gabler hosted Sneak Previews for PBS, and introduced films on the cable network AMC.

He is the author of four books: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (1989), Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity (1994), Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (1998) and Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (2006).

Gabler was one of four panelists on the Fox News Channel show, Fox News Watch. On February 2, 2008, the show's host, Eric Burns, announced Gabler had left the show to work for PBS.

Teacher

Gabler has taught at the University of Michigan and at Pennsylvania State University. He is currently Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center. As of September 2011, Gabler is a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Public Policy and Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. An excerpt from Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Gabler was used on the AP English Language exam.

Broadcaster

In 1982, Gabler paired with Jeffrey Lyons as replacement movie reviewers for the PBS show Sneak Previews. The original hosts of Sneak Previews, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, had left the show for contractual reasons and Gabler and Lyons went to Chicago to produce the show. He was a writer for the Detroit Free Press at the time. Gabler left Sneak Previews in 1985 citing differences with the direction of the show. He was replaced by Michael Medved who had had cameo appearances on Sneak Previews before replacing Gabler full time.

Filmography

• Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005)
• Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
• Earl Cunningham: The Dragon of Saint George Street (2004) WMFE-Orlando Documentary
• Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998)
• Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
• Walter Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity (1995)
• Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul (1993)
• Sneak Previews (1982–1985)

References

1. ^ Museum.tv
2. ^ Random House
3. ^ Lear Center biography

External links

• Neal Gabler at the Internet Movie Database
• Neal Gabler at AllRovi
• NPR
• Neal Gabler interview

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