Word: kael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Tango in Paris. "A movie that people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies. Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando have altered the face of an art form." Well. Pauline Kael started it all with these words, and it was inevitable that parody would flourish to a point where Buchwald could talk of a dumb movie about the Parisian housing shortage and two apartment-hunters who find a rundown flat and spend a lot of time rolling around trying to measure it for a carpet. But it's not typical for anyone to skip joyously unaffected...
...critic goes against the grain of the general consensus and pronounces something "bad" already determined by the others to be "good," he is not only panning a specific work but he is broadcasting the fact that his colleagues have been hoodwinked, taken in by a fraud. For instance, Pauline Kael raves about Tango in Paris six months before the movie hits the country. Everybody spends six hot months panting to see the eroticism that shall change the face of cinema. No movie could live up to such a snowball of projected fantasy. So when it finally arrives and the inevitable...
Helen Frankenthaler, D.F.A., artist. Pauline Kael, Litt.D., movie critic. Louise Nevelson, D.F.A., sculptor...
Dear Miss Kael, Since you know so much about the art of film, why don't you spend your time making it? But first, you will need a pair of balls...
...Miss Kael replied: "Movies are made and criticism is written by the use of intelligence, talent, taste, emotion, education, imagination and discrimination. I suggest it is time you and your cohorts stop thinking with your genital jewels." And I suggest that now is the time for Kael to return to the standards of the first sentence before her own gems get out of hand...