Talk:A. O. Scott

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[edit] Information sought

According to the NYT bio, he started grad school at Johns Hopkins toward a degree (presumably a Ph.D.) in American literature, but dropped out. I would be very interested in knowing more about this. What was he studying? Did he publish any articles or deliver any papers? Some of this information should be accessible in Jstor and similar databases, but it's hard to know what to search for. "A. O. Scott"? "Anthony Scott"? "Tony Scott"? The latter are very common names. (By the way, on the discussion about "Tony" below -- I have heard people refer to him as "Tony Scott." He definitely goes by that name.)

[edit] Removed as unverified

I removed the following text, as I could not verify it from his bio at the NY Times.

His hiring occurred simultaneously with that of Elvis Mitchell and Stephen Holden as film critics, though Mitchell, dissatisfied with Scott's promotion to chief film critic, left the paper in 2003, whereupon he was replaced by The Los Angeles Times's Manohla Dargis. Stephen Holden remains, though in an auxiliary role.

He has mentioned as his overall favorite films, The Wizard of Oz, Nashville, Modern Times, and Rocco and His Brothers.

The "A" in his name stands for Anthony, and his friends call him Tony.

I would not be surprised at all if it was true, but it needs a source, or sources. I encourage anyone to add it back in with a source. Thanks! JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:29, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:A.O. Scott merged to this page

I merged Talk:A.O. Scott to this page. The main articles A. O. Scott and A.O. Scott (and their talk pages) were duplicate pages, and from Mr. Scott's NYTimes bio, it appears that "A. O. Scott" (with the space between the initials) is correct. --Iamunknown 04:41, 4 October 2006 (UTC)