Posted
12:17 PM
by Gene
Pauline Kael had just as much intellectual verve in her 60s as in her 30s, something I would also say about Times pop critic Robert Hilburn, who, like Kael, is a hugely influential figure among younger critics.
--The mogul-friendly Patrick Goldstein of the
LA Times,
writing in the LA Times.
We can never hope for cultural change so long as news hacks' principal activity is backscratching.