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- Gene Shalit died peacefully on Friday at age 100.
- He joined NBC in 1968 after serving as film critic for Look magazine.
- Shalit retired from regular on-air duties in 2010, becoming one of the last regular film critics on a major network.
- Born March 25, 1926 in New York City, he married Nancy Lewis for 28 years until her 1978 death.
- He had six children, and daughter Emily died of ovarian cancer in 2012.
