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John C. "Jay" Cocks Jr. (born January 12, 1944) is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before shifting to screenplay writing. Cocks married actress Verna Bloom in 1972. Bloom, with Cocks, had a son, Sam. Bloom died in 2019.
Jay Cocks discusses collaborating with Martin Scorsese and the writing process behind The Age of Innocence. On the 25th anniversary of the film's release, Academy Award–nominated screenwriter...
Jay Cocks was born on 1 December 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for Silence (2016), Strange Days (1995) and Gangs of New York (2002). He was previously married to Verna Bloom.
Jay Cocks. By Jenelle Riley | Last Updated: November 5, 2019. To go from film fanatic to film critic to film writer might not seem a typical course. But, for Jay Cocks, it was the logical route.
To make everything harder, Time magazine had printed a hostile review only that week of Bronson's latest movie, " The Stone Killer ." The writer, Jay Cocks, dismissed it as another "Charles Bronson- Michael Winner picture." To Bronson, that was a personal attack.
On the 25th anniversary of the film's release, Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Jay Cocks revisits his celebrated adaptation of Edith Wharton's classic novel, as well as his collaborations...
In the 50 years that the writer Jay Cocks has been friends with Martin Scorsese, the two have collaborated on some films that were made quickly – The Age of Innocence took all of 17 days to ...
