Rex Reed, who spent six decades reviewing movies and writing about their stars, died Tuesday in his Manhattan home at age 87.
Reed was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 2, 1938, and spent part of his childhood in Baton Rouge. In a 2012 feature story for The Advocate, he recounted spending Saturdays hopping a bus from his home in the Villa Del Rey subdivision to downtown Baton Rouge, taking in a movie at the Paramount, then eating lunch at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Third Street.
He was only 10 years old at the time…