Word: kael
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much deconstruction can one blond bear? Just about everyone has had a go at Marilyn Monroe. There have been more than 300 biographies, learned essays by Steinem and Kael, countless documentaries, drag queens, tattoos, Warhol silk screens and porcelain collector's dolls. Marilyn has gone from actress to icon to licensed brand name; only Elvis and James Dean have rivaled her in market share. At this point, she seems almost beyond comment, like Coca-Cola or Levi's. How did a woman who died a suicide at 36, after starring in only a handful of movies, become such an epic...
...Grapes movie.Springsteen has arrived at some type of mediaalchemy, his songs associated with movies--all ofhis recent hits, "Philadelphia," "Dead ManWalking" and "Secret Garden," have come offsoundtracks--and even, on the fourth disk ofTracks, quoting directly from Pete Dexter'sscreen-adapted novel Paris Trout and fromfilm critic Pauline Kael...
Books: Film critic Pauline Kael says farewell in For Keeps...
...Kael, 75, retired three years ago; we can all relax from keeping up with the ruthless intensity of her opinions. Her voice is echoed, shrilly, wanly, in dozens of movie reviewers whose style she influenced and whose careers she strenuously promoted. But for the real thing, there is a mammoth new book, For Keeps (Dutton; 1,312 pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children...
...Kael was in her 40s before she became a fixture among cinephiles in Berkeley, California, where her criticism appeared in the form of program notes, radio reviews, screeds in the local film magazine. She couldn't have been further out of the loop -- the double helix, really, that embraced Hollywood movies and Manhattan media -- so she devised a piquant strategy for being heard: she would go to a movie and review the audience. Sometimes she'd review the reviewers, a tactic that led to slams on the New York Times' Bosley Crowther and epochal tussles over the auteur theory with...