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263 “She was obsessed with James Toback”: Author interview with Veronica Cartwright, April 26, 2009.
263 “I had the weirdest feeling she was offended”: Ibid.
264 “Danny Melnick didn’t want to fuck her”: Author interview with Paul Schrader, August 31, 2009.
264 “powerful raw ideas for movies”: Kael, The New Yorker (February 19, 1979).
264 “Schrader doesn’t enter the world of porno”: Ibid.
264 “cautious and maddeningly opaque”: Ibid.
264 “The possibility also comes to mind”: Ibid.
265 “like visual rock”: Kael, The New Yorker (March 5, 1979).
265 “mesmerizing in its intensity”: Ibid.
266 “the risk factor out of financing movies”: In These Times (May 1980).
267 “Now we can be friends again”: Letter from Ray Stark to Pauline Kael, March 29, 1979.
267 “He wanted to hunt her down, and get her”: Author interview with Paul Schrader, August 31, 2009.
267 “There was a fine writer named Pauline”: Undated poem from various staff members of The New Yorker.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
269 “So. . . . Tell me”: Author interview with James Toback, May 21, 2009.
269 “Now I know what Warren meant”: Letter from Kenneth Ziffren to Pauline Kael, 1979.
269 “probably take the whole weekend”: Ibid.
270 “She was keen to break loose from what she had been doing”: Author interview with Kenneth Ziffren, June 19, 2009.
270 “He never wrote or made anything that he hadn’t experienced first”: Author interview with Richard Albarino, November 23, 2009.
270 “I typed about four words”: Ibid.
271 “a blueprint which may or may not work”: Author interview with James Toback, May 21, 2009.
271 “I found it impossible to work with her”: Ibid.
272 “I feel very badly”: Ibid.
272 “He was confused”: Ibid.
273 “You have to let me go back to Las Vegas”: Ibid.
273 “did a masterful job of alienating”: The New York Times, May 15, 1979.
273 “a supercharged, simpleminded creature”: Charles Fleming, High Concept: Donald Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess (New York: Doubleday, 1998), 14.
274 “It was a cake put in my lap”: Author interview with James Toback, May 21, 2009.
274 “Dear Pauline . . . as we discussed last Friday night”: Memo from Don Simpson to Pauline Kael, July 25, 1979.
274 “Eisner and I have reviewed one more time”: Memo from Don Simpson to Pauline Kael, undated.
274 “Warren’s power to charm cannot be overestimated”: Author interview with Buck Henry, April 29, 2009.
275 “You are trying to destroy my career from the inside”: Author interview with Paul Schrader, August 31, 2009.
276 “I suppose, Professor Berwind”: Author interview with Sandra Berwind, February 21, 2009.
277 “Frankly, many producers aren’t doing the job that they should”: The Hollywood Reporter, May 16, 1980.
277 “You work for a long time to become a writer”: Remarks by Pauline Kael at Visiting Writers Symposium at Vanderbilt University, March 26, 1980.
278 “He went into a long explanation”: Author interview with William Whitworth, November 30, 2009.
278 “I had the feeling that what had happened to her there shocked her”: Author interview with Jeanine Basinger, November 19, 2010.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
279 “What has happened, I think”: The New York Times Book Review, April 6, 1980.
279 “Whatever mellowness has crept into her writing”: Ibid.
279 “When Pauline scolds the industry”: The Village Voice, July 2–8, 1980.
279 “a more candid critic than Pauline”: Ibid.
280 “Why are you shaking?”: Audio interview between Pauline Kael and Ray Sawhill, 2000.
280 “He has a way of making us feel that we’re in on a joke”: Pauline Kael, “The Current Cinema,” The New Yorker (June 9, 1980).
280 “His performance begins to seem cramped, slightly robotized”: Ibid.
281 “Very soon they’re likely to be summoning ”: Kael, The New Yorker (June 23, 1980).
281 “discovered how to take the risk out of moviemaking”: Ibid.
282 “readiness for a visionary, climactic, summing-up movie”: Ibid.
282 “an incoherent mess”: Television interview with Pauline Kael, Live at Five, fall 1982.
282 “a quality of flushed transparency”: Kael, The New Yorker (July 21, 1980).
282 “perfected