EARLY EDITION: Surviving the silver screen

Take a step behind the scenes as we highlight some memorable moments from the Ottawa Citizen’s storied past. Jay Stone was a print journalist for 46 years, covering everything from police to city hall. For two decades, until he retired in 2014, he was movie critic for the Citizen and later for the CanWest and Postmedia groups.
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I was a movie critic for 20 years, so I went to a lot of films: At an average of five a week, it adds up to more than 5,000. That’s even more than