Former THR TV critic Irv Letofsky dies

December 24, 2007 Irv Letofsky, a television critic for The Hollywood Reporter and a former editor of the Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar section, died Sunday of liver cancer at his home in Los Angeles. Known in later years for his lively and succinct television reviews for the Reporter, Letofsky had been assistant city editor of the Minneapolis Tribune until 1976, when he joined the Times. There he assembled a covey of investigative reporters who, as one recalled later, "ripped the face off the entertainment industry" with stories involving such things as profit withholding at major studios and the hiring of psychics to predict the future of television pilots.

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