Pauline Kael - Brian Kellow [266]
Letter from Sydney Pollack, by permission of the Sydney Pollack family
Letter from Grover Sales, by permission of Georgia Sales
Letter from Michael Sragow, by permission of Michael Sragow
Letter from Daniel Talbot, by permission of Daniel Talbot
Letter from Ken Ziffren, by permission of Ken Ziffren
Photograph credits
Insert page 1 (top and bottom): Photograph by Walter A. Scott, used by permission of Gina James, in the Pauline Kael Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2 (top): Courtesy Joel Singer
2 (bottom), 3 (top): Photograph by James Cano, 1964, courtesy Linda Allen
3 (bottom): Courtesy Kathleen Carroll
4 (top and bottom), 7 (top and bottom): Photographed by Jill Krementz, all rights reserved
5 (top and bottom): Photofest
6 (top and bottom), 8 (top): Courtesy Polly Frost
6 (center): Courtesy Allen Barra
8 (bottom): By permission of the photographer, James Hamilton
The 1936 graduating class of San Francisco’s Girls’ High School (Pauline is in the front row, tenth from the right).
Detail: Pauline, front row, center.
James Broughton, the father of Pauline’s only child, Gina James.
Pauline cutting her friend Linda Allen’s hair, at Pauline’s house on Oregon Street, Berkeley, 1964.
Gina James, Berkeley, 1964.
The members of the New York Film Critics Circle, 1970. BACK ROW (standing): Bernard Drew, Pauline, A. H. Weiler, William Wolf, Frances Herridge, Frances Taylor, Archer Winsten, Robert Salmaggi, Judith Crist. FRONT ROW (seated): Ann Guarino, Wanda Hale, Kathleen Carroll.
Pauline on the New Journalism panel at the 1972 More Conference.
Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
Pauline receiving the National Book Award from Janet Flanner.
Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
A 1975 appearance on PBS, with Robert MacNeil and Woody Allen.
Pauline’s one and only stint as a juror at the Cannes Film Festival, 1977, with producer-actor Jacques Perrin.
Always a reluctant New Yorker, Pauline found the perfect retreat in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Pauline at home in Great Barrington.
Pauline’s writing desk: order was always extremely important to her.
Pauline with one of her New Yorker editors, William Whitworth. Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
Pauline in her office at The New Yorker. Photographed by Jill Krementz; all rights reserved.
Pauline with her close friend Polly Frost.
Pauline’s eightieth birthday party, June 1999.
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