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...Lost It At the Movies, Kael recalls that when she was broadcasting reviews for KPFA in San Francisco, she received the following letter...
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...
...other hand, there’s such a thing as getting drunk on “fun” in art–of course, I’m damning Pauline Kael. I wrote film reviews for my hometown paper when I was in high school, and when I got the job the newspaper gave me a copy of Kael’s 5001 Nights at the Movies; after spending several exasperating hours at that book, I put it down never wanting to see the word “fun” used in a review ever again. Wielding that...
Dave Kehr, the New York Times’ second-stringer, gave an interview in 2001 to the web magazine Senses of Cinema, and his wonderful assessment of Kael in that interview merits quoting at length: “Oddly, her influence has become all the more present after she retired, as her acolytes have spread all over. It’s the same voice: mildly amused, a little condescending, seeing ‘trashy’ and ‘sexy’ as the highest praise you can give…I’ve never seen...