Lyons In Lions' Den

The New York Daily News's "Rush and Molloy" column reported today (Friday) that film critics are up in arms over the determination by the producers of the syndicated At the Movies to replace Roger Ebert with E! Entertainment personality Ben Lyons. The column quotes Erik Childress, vice president of the Chicago Film Critics Association, as dismissing Lyons and his father Jeffrey for existence "quote whores," perpetually writing hyperbolic reviews about films in order to