What Rex Reed Taught Me About Truth, Kindness and Writing

What Rex Reed Taught Me About Truth, Kindness and Writing

I first heard the name Rex Reed when I was about eight years old, and he arrived in Baton Rouge to write about the making of a film. Rex was considered a hometown success story, having graduated from Louisiana State University and having had crosses burned on his lawn after he wrote a scathing editorial for the college newspaper called “The Price of Prejudice.” The film being made was tentatively titled Blood Kin and was based on the Tennessee W…