32 Facts About Marvin Kitman

Marvin Kitman was born on November 24,1929 and is an American television critic, humorist, and author.

Marvin Kitman is the author of nine books, including two on George Washington that combine humor with extensive historical research.

Marvin Kitman's family moved to Brooklyn, New York, during his childhood.

Marvin Kitman attended Brooklyn Technical High School graduating in 1947.

Marvin Kitman then graduated from City College of New York with a Bachelor of Arts in 1953.

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Marvin Kitman was drafted into the Army of the United States, where he served from 1953 to 1955.

Marvin Kitman became active in several organizations within the town.

Marvin Kitman lived across the street from novelist Robert Ludlum, then working on the first in a long list of thrillers, the sight of which Kitman later said inspired him to get serious about his own writing.

Marvin Kitman worked as a freelance writer during the 1950s and 1960s.

Marvin Kitman subsequently became an officer and partner in Monocle's periodicals and books divisions.

Marvin Kitman was one of Monocle editors who created the idea of the Report from Iron Mountain satirical hoax, which was written and published by Leonard Lewin in 1967 and subsequently believed as true by many.

Marvin Kitman was one of the earlier, and longer-lasting, television critics.

Marvin Kitman began his efforts in this arena writing for The New Leader in 1967.

Marvin Kitman then started his run at Newsday on December 7,1969, and remained there until April 1,2005, totaling 5,786 columns.

The column was called "The Marvin Kitman Show" and Kitman was credited as its "Executive Producer".

Marvin Kitman worked from his home in Leonia the entire time, avoiding the commute to Melville, New York, where the paper was published, and in the earlier years sometimes using couriers to carry videotapes and copy back and forth.

Marvin Kitman held strong views about the lack of quality of much of what was on television during his time as a critic.

Marvin Kitman was a frequent panelist on the show All About TV which appeared on WNYC-TV.

Marvin Kitman had a radio show known as "Watching TV" on the RKO Radio Network in the early 1980s.

Marvin Kitman wrote about television, in particular in I Am a VCR, which was about the effect watching television constantly for two decades was having on the author.

Marvin Kitman was a co-creator and co-writer, along with Jim Bouton and Vic Ziegel, of the short-lived 1976 television situation comedy Ball Four, based upon Bouton's book of the same name.

Marvin Kitman wrote two books about George Washington that combined humor with extensive historical research.

Marvin Kitman's theme is that Washington foreshadowed the modern practice of maintaining, and sometimes manipulating, expense accounts.

In 2007, Marvin Kitman published a biography of the popular but controversial television commentator Bill O'Reilly.

The New York Times praised Marvin Kitman for doing Boswellian amounts of research and constructing a well-written narrative, but ultimately concluded that the positive aspect of the portrayal was "unconvincing" and a "mash note".

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Since ending his Newsday column, Marvin Kitman has remained active in that idiom, well into his eighties and then nineties.

Such posts continued through 2020, Subsequently Marvin Kitman made his "Justaminuteman" postings on politics on the Twitter and Substack platforms.

In 1982, Marvin Kitman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Marvin Kitman was given the Humorous Writing Award from the Society of the Silurians, a New York area press organization, in 1991 and a Special Commentary Award from the same body in 1993.

Marvin Kitman was given the James W Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism from the Media Ecology Association in 2008.

Marvin Kitman was enrolled into the Brooklyn Tech Hall of Fame in 1998.

Marvin Kitman has proclaimed himself the monarch of the Kingdom of Redonda.