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89 “goes against the grain”: Ibid.
89 “a world more exciting”: Ibid.
89 “something we wanted”: Ibid.
89 “Surely only social deviates”: Ibid.
89 “large-scale campaigns designed to cut him down”: Pauline Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1968), 191.
89 “His greatness is in a range that is too disturbing”: Ibid., 195.
89 “still the most exciting American actor on the screen”: Ibid.
90 “The only thing she was really lacking”: Author interview with Sidney Lumet, February 13, 2009.
90 “rather brusque and strict”: Author interview with Shirley Knight, February 21, 2009.
90 “I remember doing so many takes”: Author interview with Jessica Walter, March 30. 2009.
90 “He’ll do a bunch of takes”: Author interview with Shirley Knight, February 21, 2009.
91 “We had a good dinner and a lot to drink”: Author interview with Sidney Lumet, February 13, 2009.
91 “My job”: Ibid.
91 “I thought, this is a very dangerous person”: Ibid.
91 “changed the way their readers viewed the world”: Marc Weingarten, The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight (New York: Crown, 2005), 7.
92 “What really offended me”: Author interview with Sidney Lumet, February 13, 2009.
92 “he would not try to reshape the scenario”: Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 71.
92 “I had heard it was going to be butchery”: Author interview with Sidney Lumet, February 13, 2009.
CHAPTER NINE
93 “Appreciation courses have paralyzed reactions”: Pauline Kael, McCall’s (February 1966).
93 “rather like watching an old movie”: Pauline Kael, McCall’s (March 1966), 24.
94 “stately, respectable and dead”: Pauline Kael, McCall’s (April 1966), 36.
94 “watching a giant task of stone masonry”: Ibid.
94 “that will probably have to bankrupt several studios before a halt is called”: Ibid.
95 “the single most repressive”: Pauline Kael, McCall’s (May 1966).
95 “You begin to feel”: Ibid.
95 “The reviews became less and less appropriate”: Newsweek (May 30, 1966).
95 “What would you like us to do with all this money?”: Letter from Robert Mills to Pauline Kael, June 7, 1966.
96 “ploddingly intelligent and controlled”: Pauline Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1968), 132.
96 “I could hardly get a word in edgewise”: Author interview with Joseph Morgenstern, May 8, 2009.
97 “a modernized version of an earlier, romantic primitivist notion”: Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 20.
97 “so appealing to college students”: Ibid., 22.
97 “And if it be said that this is sociology”: Ibid.
97 “could find good use for another one or two hundred dollars a check”: Letter from Robert Mills to Robert Evett, December 12, 1966.
97 “Judy Crist!”: Author interview with Judith Crist, June 10, 2008.
98 “Your agent was right”: Ibid.
98 “She wanted to explain to me”: Ibid.
98 “the fervor and astonishing speed”: Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 32.
99 “the casting superb and the performance beautiful”: Ibid., 200.
99 “the best of Griffith, John Ford”: Ibid.
99 “And Welles—the one great creative force in American films in our time”: Ibid.
99 “movies made by a generation bred on movies”: Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 115.
101 “a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick”: The New York Times, August 7, 1967.
101 “How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on?”: Pauline Kael, “The Current Cinema,” The New Yorker (October 21, 1967).
102 “they were able to use the knowledge”: Ibid.
102 “Bonnie and Clyde keeps the audience in a kind of eager, nervous imbalance”: Ibid.
102 “Audiences at Bonnie and Clyde are not given a simple, secure basis for identification”: Ibid.
102 “The trouble with the violence in most films”: The New York Times, September 17, 1967.
102 “the whole point of Bonnie and Clyde is to rub our noses in it”: Kael, The New Yorker (October 21, 1967).
103 “Bonnie and Clyde as a danger to public morality”: Ibid.
103 “it has put the sting back into death”: Ibid.
CHAPTER TEN
105 “You cannot keep The New Yorker out of the hands”: Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made (New