Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, July 17, 2008


Not long before she died, Pauline Kael remarked to a friend, "When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture." Who did?

RHYMES WITH DASTARD.


A year after her death (in 2001) one formerly enthusiastic reader, Paul Schrader, a screenwriter of films such as Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, wrote: "Cultural history has not been kind to Pauline."...

"It was fun watching the applecart being upset," Schrader said, "but now where do we go for apples?"


DITTO FOR YOU.

By the way -- did she smile when she said that?

(Via the ANNOYING ArtsJournal)

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