Today, Armond White was expelled from the New York Film Critics Circle following an incident in which 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen was heckled at the Nyfcc's annual awards dinner last week. You can read about that incident here. Five years ago, in February 2009, New York Magazine profiled White as he took over as Nyfcc chairman. We are reprinting that profile, by Mark Jacobson, in full. With the commencement of the 75th-anniversary year of the New York Film Critics Circle, Armond White, the newly elected chairman, passed the first morning of what he called “my reign” recounting how he’d barely made it through the 74th season, which had ended the previous night with the traditional awards dinner. For starters, White, whose writings can be found in the downtown freebie New York Press, was appalled by the behavior of the stars, particularly Sean Penn and Josh Brolin, who...
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