Rex Reed: A bold-faced-name life

Won't be long before it's time for "THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE..." The Oscars are one month from tonight. And to hear critic Rex Reed tell it, Gary Oldman could very well be a winner for his performance in "Darkest Hour." There's plenty more where that came from, as our Mo Rocca found out: Movie critic Rex Reed has some opinions about this year's Best Picture Oscar-nominees… "Call Me By Your Name" ? "Terrific movie," he said. "Dunkirk" ? "Hated it!" "Get Out" ? "Truly one of the worst movies I've ever seen, a complete fraud, that picture. I didn't care if all the black men are turned into robots." [For the record, there are NO robots in "Get Out."] And "The Post" ? "'The Post' is my favorite movie of the year. I think it's a great movie. You have all these kids making movies today, but they can't compare to a real pro like Spielberg ." Rocca asked, "Are you going to watch the Oscars?" "Oh, I always do. I love to watch the Oscars with a club sandwich in bed." …While fondly remembering the A-List Oscar parties of yesteryear, thrown by his friend, the actress Polly Bergen . "And everybody was there," said Reed. "One year I watched the Oscars in Polly's bed with Lucille Ball on one side and Paul Newman on the other." Rex Reed on this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees 04:16 Reed was sandwiched between those two stars because there was a time when he was an A-Lister himself. And in the late 1960s and '70s, his clever opinions made him a fixture on television. …