{"id":136760,"date":"2026-06-13T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=136760"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:28:45","slug":"gene-shalit-today-show-movie-critic-dies-at-100-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=136760","title":{"rendered":"Gene Shalit \u201cToday Show\u201d Movie Critic, Dies At 100 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=136760\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=136760\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-136761 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gene Shalit died on Friday, 12 June. He was 100.<\/p>\n<p>For 40 years, he was a member of \u201cThe Today Show\u201d, reviewed books and movies, and interviewed famous people while sitting next to Tom Brokaw, Barbara Walters, Bryant Gumbel, and Katie Couric.<\/p>\n<p>He was known for his huge mustache, bow ties, big hair, and outgoing personality.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends their condolences to The Shalit Family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karen Beishuizen Gene Shalit died on Friday, 12 June. He was 100. For 40 years, he was a member of \u201cThe Today Show\u201d, reviewed books and movies, and interviewed famous people while sitting next to Tom Brokaw, Barbara Walters, Bryant Gumbel, and Katie Couric. He was known for his huge mustache, bow ties, big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132,17984],"tags":[35351,35350],"class_list":["post-136760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","category-entertainment-news","tag-dies-at-100-entertainment-news","tag-gene-shalit-today-show-movie-critic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136760"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}