Something for Ted Murphy

Tonight's post is brief. Today, my co-workers and I learned that one of our colleagues died. This was unexpected and obviously, the news brought a mixture of shock, disbelief, sadness, loss and grief.

Ted Murphy was a man that I didn't know well but one that I respected and enjoyed working with during the few years that we shared a roof- and a boss. Prior to and during his last assignment at my place of work, Ted had the opportunity to channel his deep love of cinema into the role of reviewer. Ted was a man of great and strong opinions. Those opinions, like all good ones, were a mixture of thought, knowledge, and gut reaction. He was never shy to share his. His opinions, like many good ones, were often correct.

When we had the opportunity to talk together about movies, acting, performers or many other things I enjoyed listening to Ted because he always had much to say on a subject and was always well prepared to back his argument. Ted often lead me to either rethink my original stance on a topic or to agree with him while still finding great wonder in the different ways in which we reached a shared opinion. He was well versed in cinema, theatre and life. Ted was uncompromising, attentive to details and always passionate about his likes and dislikes. All of these were boons to his work at our office and to his work as a reviewer.

I'd like to direct anyone interested to a link to his reviews posted at rottentomatoes.com as well as his website, Murphy's Movie Reviews. As with true review of a work of art, agreeing or disagreeing is worth less than reading and coming away with more information and thoughts than you had before seeing a review, especially if you have seen the work being reviewed. This is true with movies, theatre, television and even with a baseball umpire's strike zone. I hope that you will take a moment to avail yourselves to some of Ted's reviews.

Thanks.

http://www.murphysmoviereviews.net/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author/author-3521/