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Bill Newcott
 Bill Newcott is the voice of AARP’s Movies for Grownups in print, on the air, and online. His reviews and features reach 33 million readers in every issue of AARP the Magazine, millions of listeners on some 250 radio stations nationwide, thousands of podcast subscribers and a growing Web audience at AARPthemagazine.org. He’s been a repeat guest on CBS This Morning and quoted in USA Today plus dozens of other broadcast and print news outlets that turn to him for his latest take on Hollywood’s new focus on the grownup movie audience.
As creator of the magazine’s annual Movies for Grownups Awards and a frequent panel discussion speaker, Bill is an outspoken crusader for movies that entertain their audiences while challenging them intellectually and emotionally. He hosts the annual Movies for Grownups Awards banquet in Los Angeles, scripting and directing appearances by guest presenters including Martin Sheen, Kathy Bates, Angela Lansbury, John Cleese and Shelley Berman.
His weekly Movies for Grownups radio show is an entertaining mix of reviews, features, and interviews with such celebrities as Nicolas Cage, Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Edward Norton, Sylvster Stallone, Julie Andrews, Kevin Spacey, Kirk Douglas, Albert Brooks, Carol Burnett, and John Cleese. You can hear the show online at www.radioprimetime.org and read Bill’s reviews at www.aarpthemagazine.org.
Prior to starting at AARP the Magazine in 2001, Bill spent 10 years as an editor/writer at National Geographic Magazine. For 11 years before that he was Associate Editor of the legendary National Enquirer, during its heyday as America’s largest circulation paper.
A graduate of Rutgers University, Bill was born in the Bronx, and although his family moved to New Jersey when he was two weeks old, he still tells everyone he’s from the Bronx.
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