Noted Film critic Kim Morgan joins Media Mayhem just as news breaks of Roger Ebert’s passing and she shares some of her experience working with him. She also talks about how scandal has changed in Hollywood from the old mystique, to generation T.M.I.

Above all Kim shares her enthusiasm for film and lets people in on the difficulty that goes along with getting paid to write about cinema in a way that is deeper than a tweet.

Kim Morgan is a writer whose film, music and culture pieces have ranged from the power of cars in cinema (“Two-Lane Blacktop” the best, of course), to the greatest of film’s twist endings to movie’s most memorable blondes and more. She has written for MSN Movies, the Huffington Post, IFC, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Playboy and Garage Magazine where she authored the movie column “Drive, She Said.” Her photographs have also been published in Garage.

Along with her frequent contributions to LA Weekly, she was head film critic for the Willamette Week and weekly film critic for Portland’s daily newspaper, The Oregonian where she also had her own column “Beyond the Multiplex.” Her work has appeared in various print and web media, including GQ, Entertainment Weekly, the Portland Mercury, DVD Journal, VH1 and Salon. She’s also written for CBS and served as a Juror (for short films) at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. She also sat in for Roger Ebert, guest hosting “Ebert & Roeper” and served as special correspondent on “Roger Ebert Presents: At the Movies.”

A film noir aficionado, she’s presented movies and moderated interviews for the Los Angeles Film Noir Festival at The American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theater as well as the Palm Springs Noir Festival. She also contributed DVD commentary on the Fox noir classic “Road House” (starring Ida Lupino, Richard Widmark and Cornel Wilde) with Eddie Muller and contributed to featurettes on “Road House,” “Moontide” (starring Lupino and Jean Gabin) and “Inferno” (starring Robert Ryan).

She also served as one of the main writers for “The Official Michael Jackson Opus,” which also includes contributions by Jesse Jackson, Quincy Jones, Jane Fonda and Jane Goodall, among others. She wrote three chapters about Jackson — as dancer, as video visionary and as fashion icon.