NEWS: Armond White gets the boot

[EricJ]

For those who missed the news bulletin--After many years and one loopy public stunt too many, the Bane of RottenTomatoes finally got a big official one lobbed at his head.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/1...of-ny-critics/

Why Armond White got kicked out of the New York Film Critics Circle
By Owen Gleiberman on Jan 13, 2014 at 1:30PM

This morning, the members of the New York Film Critics Circle, including me, voted to expel Armond White, the former critic of the now-defunct New York Press (and currently the editor and movie critic of CityArts), from the group. To me, it was a sad moment — pathetic, really, though Armond brought it on himself. A week ago, at the Circle’s annual awards dinner, White made a rude and bellicose spectacle of himself, as he did the year before, by heckling one of the winners — in this case, Steve McQueen, the director of 12 Years a Slave, a movie that White, in his review, had dismissed as “torture porn.” Make no mistake: He has every right to dislike 12 Years a Slave, a movie that he considers not a powerful historical docudrama but a sensationalist feel-bad fantasy that is subtly designed to make white people feel good about their own guilt.

Unfortunately, it's only from his peers, news from his boss will have to come later.

(Of course, that doesn't mean 12 Years a Slave isn't "torture-porn" or even Conscience-Porn; this would be more of a cumulative punishment for multiple offenses.)