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Michael Medved (born October 3 1948 ) is a Jewish - American , Neoconservative Radio Talk Show host, Film Critic and Author . EARLY LIFE Michael Medved was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and was raised in San Diego , California , where his scientist father worked for the defense contractor Convair and later for NASA . Medved attended Palisades High School when the family moved to Los Angeles . He entered Yale University as a sixteen-year-old undergraduate, and was graduated with honors in 1969 , and then entered Yale Law School , where he became a personal acquaintance of Hillary Rodham Clinton (see '' Retroactive Nomenclature ''). After his first year of law school, he left to work as as head speech writer for a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, and then for four years as a speech writer and political consultant. After political campaign work, including a position as an aide to Congressman Ron Dellums , Medved worked in advertising, and coordinated a campaign to recruit more African Americans and Hispanics to the police departments of the Californian cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. After writing more than forty articles for the bestselling book '' The People's Almanac '', Medved wrote ''What Really Happened to the Class of '65?'' with David Wallechinsky . Focusing on the post-graduation lives of thirty of Medved's Palisades High School classmates who were featured in a 1965 cover story in ''Time'' , the book became a bestseller in 1976 . The book reached number three on bestseller several lists including the New York Times Bestseller List . The book also became the basis for a weekly TV series on NBC that ran for 13 weeks in 1978 . Medved then wrote ''The Shadow Presidents: The Secret History of the Chief Executives and Their Top Aides'' (1979), a study of the leading White House assistants since the establishment of the presidential staff in 1857 . The book included interviews with the chiefs of staff of presidents Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Johnson , Nixon , and Ford . After the interviews, Medved continued his involvement in politics, becoming a friend of Ford's chief of staff, Dick Cheney , affiliating himself with the Republican Party , and campaigning for Ronald Reagan in 1980 . In '' Nightline '', and '' Good Morning America ''. The book focused on thirty staff people who worked together in a California teaching hospital. MOVIE REVIEWS After Medved adapted ''Class of '65'' for television, he continued his screenwriting work, writing for feature film projects and TV miniseries, and he joined the '' (1979), '' The Golden Turkey Awards '' (1980) and '' The Hollywood Hall Of Shame '' (1984) and "Son of Golden Turkey Awards" (1986). Medved continued to review movies, through a weekly review on CNN (1980-1983) and a show he hosted on British network Channel 4 called ''The Worst of Hollywood''. His commentary centered on what he considered to be bad movies, particularly in "The Golden Turkey Awards". The film selected by the Medved Brothers as The Worst Film of All Time, '' Plan 9 From Outer Space '', has since become a Cult Classic . In 1984, Medved joined '' Sneak Previews '', the weekly movie review show originated by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert , co-hosting the program for twelve years with Jeffrey Lyons. In 1993, Medved became chief film critic for the '' New York Post '', a position he held for five years, during which he reviewed more than 700 movies for the newspaper. |
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