Jonathan Gold, posting on Twitter, calls Rich “a force at L.A. Weekly for decades; the last great critic in LA.” In addition to the Weekly, which fired Rich in 2008 after 16 years, he had written for the Herald Examiner, New West and California magazines, CityBeat, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, New York magazine, Newsweek, Daily Variety and, most recently, for Bloomberg.