New York Times movie critic Elvis Mitchell, recently praised in these pages, has apparently quit after colleague A.O. Scott was promoted over his head as the senior critic at the Times. Even more interestingly, Mitchell seems to be pondering a position in the New York office of Columbia Pictures, which would be a rare instance of a major movie journalist becoming a studio executive. (In fact, I can't think of another example of this offhand, except maybe Peter Bart's ascendancy at Paramount Pictures back in the 1970s.)

I need to apply for Mitchell's old job.