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...Pauline Kael wrote that changes in art almost always seem at first a mistake. The new initially looks like the old, done poorly. The status quo, when affronted, thinks it's watching some that wants to be the status quo, but can't. Brando didn't mean to talk in that mumbling, meandering way, did he? And Elvis, windmilling his legs and unleashing those pelvic spasms that were all his - purely Elvic - what the heck was he doing...
DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, passionate, pugnacious, widely influential film critic; in Great Barrington, Mass. Kael began writing about movies in the San Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky...
...DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, acerbic and amusing film critic whose conversational commentaries were feared by directors, revered by readers and changed the landscape of movie criticism; in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Kael didn't begin writing reviews until aged 35, but quickly gained a following and was hired by The New Yorker magazine in 1968 where she would reign for more than 20 years. DIED. JIM ROHWER, 52, respected commentator on the Asian economy; in a boating accident, in France. A Hong Kong-based senior writer for Fortune, Rohwer authored the 1995 book Asia Rising, which became the definitive take...
...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...