Michael Sragow
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Deeper Into Kael
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film
Deeper Into Kael
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film
Conrack and Its Critics
"You can take any stupidity you like and say, there, that's a liberal for you. Word covers simply everything." --Wilfrid
Speed and Thump
While pretending to capture the air of cynicism and moral defeat that has arisen in the age of Watergate, Hollywood
'The Glory of Blackness'
T HE WRITING in A Woman Named Solitude is so surely tied to the psyches of its characters that this
Suburban Apples and Neon
S OUTH JERSEY SUBURBS, which I'm familiar with, are different from the ones John Cheever writes about. Where I come
Deeper Into Kael
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film
Right Between the Legs
T HERE ARE FOUR erotic scenes in The Last Tango in Paris which are so much more honest than the
Goodbye, Danny
D ANNY DECK, the hero of Larry McMurtry's `EGIBLE> novel, is the kind of writer which, when I was 16,
Kissing Off Chandler
D ON'T SEE The Long Goodbye if you have fond and entrenched memories of the Raymond Chandler crime novel. Director