George Singleton

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He is the only child of George and Helen Singleton. His father was a welder at a plant that made diesel locomotives and his mother worked in a tape manufacturing facility.</div> <bR> <div> George grew up learning how to deal with change by being in a stable environment. The elementary school and the high school he attended were both within walking distance of the single family home he lived in until after he graduated from college. </div> <bR> <div> His fondest memories of that time were the summers he spent with his grandparents at their country house in Michigan. He loved playing baseball and was a decent classical pianist who played at his local church. Although he lived in a segregated, lower middle class neighborhood and attended an all black grammar school, his high school was integrated. </div> <bR> <div> After graduating from high school in 1960, George took his first real job, which was working at McDonalds. He earned enough money during the summer to pay for his tuition and books for the first year of college at the University of Illinois. He majored in accounting with a minor in marketing. While there he met his wife to be, Pamela, in the school cafeteria. George and Pam dated on and off for four years and were married a few months after his graduation from DePaul University in 1964.</div> <bR> <div> George's first job after college was as an accountant for Quaker Oats. While visiting a friend in Detroit, he saw an ad for a sales rep with NCR. Three weeks later he and Pam had moved from Chicago and he began working in Detroit. Although things went well at NCR, a war was raging in Viet Nam. Drafted in 1966, George spent three years in the US Army. After boot camp at Fort Knox, KY and Advanced Infantry Training at Ford Ord, California, he returned to Fort Knox where he completed a six-month training program to become a 2<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >nd</FONT> Lt. armored tank platoon leader. Upon receiving his officer's commission, George was assigned to Fort Lewis, Washington where he and Pam remained for two years until his honorable discharge in 1969. Their daughter Kamaria was born in Tacoma, WA while he was stationed at Fort Lewis. </div> <bR> <div> Immediately after leaving the Army, George joined IBM in Detroit as a sales rep, selling mainframe computers and he remained with them until 1993. While there he had various marketing positions in Detroit, Cincinnati and Chicago, including almost 20 years in sales management. Each and every year he exceeded the objective of his quota assignment. While living in Cincinnati, George & Pam adopted a five-year-old boy named Tony.</div> <bR> <div> In 1993 George accepted a position as the General Manager with GE Capital in Sacramento, CA. In less than three years he grew a business that was losing money on $6M in sales, to one earning over $50M with above average net profit for the computer industry.  </div> <bR> <div> While living in California, when George was not selling computers, playing a round of golf or riding his mountain bike, he and Pam were at the movies. Being empty nesters for the first time, they started going to film festivals. When their holiday newsletter went out, it included a listing of movies they had seen for the year along with a one-sentence summary. They also selected the top10 films of the year. </div> <bR> <div> George & Pam moved back to Chicago in 1998 and began taking their love of film to the next level. Rather than reading one movie review, they would buy all the newspapers to read and compare the reviews by various critics. As with most things when you start to say what you don't like, then it's time for you to do something about it. Reading movie reviews motivated George to attend more “art house films” which added elements of enlightenment to the normal Hollywood entertainment fare. </div> <bR> <div> The first time George went to a film festival and saw every movie shown was at The Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival in 1999. That was a landmark event in that he was exposed to an even broader base of films. Roger Ebert told the audience that his answer to students asking how to become a movie critic is, “…to become one.” Later that year Pam and George attended the Chicago International Film Festival and in 2000, again they saw every film at Ebert's festival. </div> <bR> <div> At the beginning of 2000 George started writing movie reviews, concurrent with the creation of a web site. By October the web site was up and running with over 150 individual movie review web pages. In addition to the reviews, he also writes essays on film. Pam co-founded <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com"><U><U>www.reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></FONT><A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com"><U> </U></A>with George and serves as chief editor.</div> <bR> <div> Both of George's parents are deceased.  He was close to them his entire life and for that he will be forever thankful. George and his father took golf trips together and his mother was Pam's best friend. Their daughter Kamaria lives nearby with her husband and three boys. George now plays golf and rides bikes with his grandchildren. He camps with them, takes them to museums and he even has the oldest one, who is twelve, writing movie reviews.</div> <bR> <div> George will post between 150-200 movie reviews to the web site each year. In addition to movies, he has created a section on book reviews and <B>Great Web Sites </B>is a wonderful place to find things on the Internet.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>