Editing Andrew Sarris (section)

==Early life==
Sarris was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to Greek immigrant parents, Themis (née Katavolos) and George Andrew Sarris, and grew up in [[Ozone Park]], [[Queens]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XwOAQAAMAAJ&q=George+Themis+Sarris|title=Who's who in Writers, Editors & Poets, United States & Canada|date=May 2, 1995|publisher=December Press|isbn=9780913204306|via=Google Books}}</ref> After attending John Adams High School in [[South Ozone Park]] (where he overlapped with [[Jimmy Breslin]]), he graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1951 and then served for three years in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[United States Army Signal Corps|Signal Corps]], during the [[Korean War]], before moving to Paris for a year, where he became a friend of [[Jean-Luc Godard]] and [[François Truffaut]]. Upon returning to New York's [[Lower East Side]], Sarris briefly pursued graduate studies at his alma mater and [[Teachers College, Columbia University]] before turning to film criticism as a vocation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Sarris '51, '98 GSAS, Film Critic and Longtime School of the Arts Professor {{!}} Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/fall12/obituaries1 |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}}</ref>