Daniel M. Kimmel is an American

United States

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 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 critic, writer

Writer

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, and college media professor, currently teaching at Suffolk University

Suffolk University

Suffolk University is a private, non-sectarian, university located in Boston, Massachusetts and with over 16,000 students it is the third largest university in Boston...

. He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester

University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...

 and a degree in law from Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

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Kimmel is a correspondent for Variety

Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

, and has been a TV columnist for the Boston Herald

Boston Herald

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. From 1984 to 2009 he was a film reviewer for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

The Telegram & Gazette is Worcester, Massachusetts's only daily newspaper. The paper, known locally as the Telegram or the T & G is owned by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times Company .It offers coverage of all of...

 in Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

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. His reviews can currently be found at northshoremovies.net and the Jewish Advocate. His essays on classic science fiction films appeared in the Internet Review of Science Fiction from 2005–2010 and currently appear in Space and Time and in Clarkesworld.

He is the author of several books and has co-written a play, "The Waldorf Conference," about the Hollywood blacklist. His 2004 history of Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

, "The Fourth Network

The Fourth Network

The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television is a non-fiction book about the history of the Fox television network. It was written by Daniel M. Kimmel and published in 2004...

," received the Cable Center Award for best book of the year.

Kimmel was the only critic to give the movie Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams is a 1994 documentary film directed by Steve James, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players....

 a bad rating at Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes

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.* http://www.bikiniatollblog.com/2010/04/some-guy-didnt-like-hoop-dreams.html

He is not related to Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel

James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel is an American television host and comedian. He is the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that airs on ABC. Prior to that, Kimmel was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money...

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Books

• The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television
  The Fourth Network
  The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television is a non-fiction book about the history of the Fox television network. It was written by Daniel M. Kimmel and published in 2004...
  
  
• Love Stories: Hollywood's Most Romantic Movies
• Isn't It Romantic
• The Dream Team - The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood
• I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies
• Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction films (March 2011)

External links

• Daniel M. Kimmel Information
• Cable Center Book Award site
• Daniel Kimmel Interview by Michael A. Ventrella
  Michael A. Ventrella
  Michael A. Ventrella founded Animato! in the mid 80s. He sold it in the early 90s. Under the pseudonym "Thelma Scumm" he wrote the gossip column and later continued that for fps magazine...
  
  , September 2009
• Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews by Dan Kimmel