All we really wanted was to write like Pauline Kael.
We used to scour book sale bins for back issues of the New Yorker so we could read Pauline Kael’s movie reviews. She was hilarious, knowledgeable, extremely opionated, inconsistent, verbose, and her admiration for some movies bordered on the irrational. We loved her madly. We wanted to be Pauline Kael.
What She Said: The doings and undoings of Pauline Kael. By Nathan Heller in The New Yorker.
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October 19th, 2011 at 08:55
O God, me too! I actually stole one of her anthologies because I fancied myself a completist.
November 22nd, 2011 at 09:06
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/roaring-at-the-screen-with-pauline-kael.html