Background
Clinton was born in Columbus, Ohio and attended Ohio State University and then moved to New York, where he became a page at National Broadcasting Company.
Clinton was born in Columbus, Ohio and attended Ohio State University and then moved to New York, where he became a page at National Broadcasting Company.
Ohio State University.
He served as Cable News Network.com film critic for 20 years. He produced for The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder and then moved to Los Angeles to work on The Merv Griffin Show. Later he moved to KCBS-television as an entertainment news producer.
In 1988, Paul Clinton began working on the Turner Entertainment Report and other media in the Cable News Network family, where he started reviewing films.
In addition to being a critic for Cable News Network.com, his radio reviews and "Paul"s Picks" pieces aired on more than 100 stations domestically and internationally. Clinton and film historian James Ursini did audio commentary on the 2005 Digital Video Disc release of Dark Victory (1939) starring Bette Davis.
Clinton died aged 53 on January 30, 2006 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.