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57 “Her mind was always moving five times faster”: Author interview with Donald Gutierrez, July 21, 2009.
57 “She had a motherly side”: Author interview with Ernest Callenbach, September 9, 2008.
58 “She started damning his poems”: Author interview with Donald Gutierrez, July 21, 2009.
59 “Her attention to Gina would go on and off like a searchlight”: Author interview with Stephen Kresge, June 15, 2008.
60 “Does a poet edit his own poetry?”: Ibid.
60 “She was overwhelmed in his presence”: Ibid.
60 “She got Gina and me out of the house”: Author interview with David Young Allen, September 9, 2009.
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61 “She was kind of a champion of mine”: Author interview with Alan Rich, February 21, 2009.
61 “I remember running into Pauline on Telegraph Avenue”: Ibid.
63 “I would like to suggest that the educated audience”: Pauline Kael, I Lost It at the Movies (Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1965), 31.
63 “large generalizations in order to be suggestive”: Ibid., 31.
63 “incense burning”: Ibid., 32.
63 “audiences of social workers”: Ibid., 34.
63 “It is a depressing fact”: Ibid., 41.
64 “The codes of civilized living ”: Ibid., 129–130.
64 “a study of the human condition at the higher social and economic levels”: Ibid., 148.
65 “cinematic masterpiece”: Ibid., 142.
65 “The irony of this hyped-up, slam-bang production”: Ibid., 143, 146.
65 “overwrought, tasteless, and offensive”: Ibid., 150.
65 “irresistible evocation of the mood of Mark Twain”: Ibid., 150.
66 “The injustice of it is almost perfect”: John Osborne and Nigel Kneale, screenplay of Look Back in Anger, 1959.
66 “a conventional weakling”: Kael, I Lost It at the Movies, 68.
66 “about the failures of men and women”: Ibid., 69.
67 “Aren’t we supposed to feel sorry for these girls”: Ibid., 176.
67 “very expansive guy”: Author interview with Bob Greensfelder, October 3, 2008.
67 “sleepy and bored”: Pauline Kael, KPFA broadcast, November 22, 1961.
68 “the most simple and traditional and graceful of all modern Westerns”: Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982), 629.
69 “interviews with Quakers and Unitarians”: Pauline Kael, KPFA broadcast, December 8, 1962.
69 “Do you really want to be endlessly confirmed”: Ibid.
69 “And you I suppose”: Ibid.
69 “a million words delivered without remuneration is a rather major folly”: Kael, KPFA broadcast, March 27, 1963.
69 “if KPFA is not a station”: Ibid.
70 “although some of her charges made that an attractive possibility”: Letter from Trevor Thomas to KPFA subscribers, April 17, 1963.
70 “Despite your implacable harassment of me in print”: Letter from Dwight Macdonald to Pauline Kael, November 27, 1963.
70 “one of the best I’ve read”: Ibid.
70 “the most urgent task for American film criticism . . . a rationale for . . . Critical practice”: Letter from Dwight Macdonald to John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, November 27, 1963.
70 “cinema has become”: Ibid.
70 “Miss Kael has little income independent from what she earns by her pen”: Ibid.
71 “She had a style that appealed to a lot of people:”: Author interview with John Simon, March 6, 2008.
71 “Her main trouble was, of course”: Ibid.
71 “She felt that it would make me more important than I am”: Ibid.
71 “marvelous ambiguity and split in the content”: Pauline Kael, panel discussion at Donnell Library, September 1963.
71 “enjoying Hud’s anarchism”: Ibid.
71 “That’s sociology”: Ibid.
71 “I am worried about Pauline Kael’s position”: Ibid.
72 “to assuage their own boredom”: Ibid.
72 “I’ve never been bored, John”: Ibid.
72 “wants to be a great film—it cries out its intentions”: Pauline Kael, I Lost It at the Movies, 192.
72 “surprisingly like the confectionary dreams”: Ibid., 263.
72 “And isn’t it rather adolescent to treat the failure of love with such solemnity?”: Ibid., 184.
72 “For whom does love last?”: Ibid.
73 “Pauline had her blind spots”: Author interview with Colin Young, June 12, 2009.
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