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The Old Gray Lady's Fence-Sitter

Janet Maslin, the critic who never met a movie she didn't like, is leaving the New York Times. Earlier this year, Sarah Kerr charted Maslin's slow decline from alternative-press rock critic to Hollywood's best friend.

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