17 Facts About David Bianculli

1. David Bianculli wanted you and encouraged you to go back and read books.

2. David Bianculli loves fire, not just as a metaphor, but as a reliably flashy visual.

3. David Bianculli does so in a heavy-handed fashion, but that matches everything else in this new "Fahrenheit 451" movie.

4. David Bianculli died last Saturday at the age of 72.

5. David Bianculli was an amateur in, I think, the best sense of the word.

6. David Bianculli hands the cashier the envelope with the 20.

7. David Bianculli gave me a tutorial and told me how to write an industrial.

8. David Bianculli had said to you once - no, I think you read it actually in one of his columns.

9. David Bianculli wrote beautifully these columns he wrote in Life magazine, some of which are included in my book.

10. David Bianculli performs songs about his dad, his grandfather and his children.

11. David Bianculli has children from three different women, and three of those children are songwriters.

12. David Bianculli is a member of the Broadcast Television Journalists Association and a founding member of the Television Critics Association.

13. David Bianculli continued writing television reviews for the Sun, at $5 per review, while completing his master's degree.

14. David Bianculli showed an early interest in television, even making notes about TV shows in his childhood diary.

15. David Bianculli is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website TVWorthWatching.

16. David Bianculli has served as the television critic for NPR's radio show Fresh Air since the Philadelphia-based show went national in 1987, and regularly fills in for the show's long-time host, Terry Gross.

17. David Bianculli is an American TV critic, columnist, radio personality, non-fiction author and university professor.