by Linda Allen.
338 “surprisingly unlike herself ”: Ibid.
338 “was cool the entire time”: Author interview with Allen Barra, July 16, 2009.
339 “With Pfeiffer in deep-red velvet crawling on the piano like a long-legged Kitty-cat”: Kael, The New Yorker (October 16, 1989).
339 “Are we trying to put kids into some moral-aesthetic safe house?”: Kael, The New Yorker (December 11, 1989).
340 “coziness and slightness”: Kael, The New Yorker (December 25, 1989).
340 “Does Kael orchestrate campaigns inside the film societies?”: The Village Voice, February 4, 1988.
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342 “The picture is like the work of a slick ad exec”: Pauline Kael, “The Current Cinema,” The New Yorker (January 8, 1990).
343 “the moviemaking has such bravura that you respond as if you were at a live performance”: Kael, The New Yorker (November 19, 1990).
343 “There’s nothing affected about Costner’s acting or directing”: Kael, The New Yorker (December 17, 1990).
343 “For a brief period in the late sixties and early seventies”: Ibid.
344 “The movies are so shitty now”: Author interview with Owen Gleibman, February 18, 2009.
344 “For a brief, golden time in the ’70s”: Newsweek (March 18, 1991).
344 “At worst, she wasn’t far from a film-world version of Walter Winchell”: L. A. Weekly, March 22, 1991.
344 “enhanced and expanded the filmgoing public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema”: Citation, Mel Novikoff Award, San Francisco Film Society, May 2, 1991.
345 “welcome reading at a time when film criticism”: The Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 22, 1991.
346 “Oh—you have Annette O’Toole’s hair!”: Author interview with Charles Taylor, June 15, 2009.
346 “Pauline felt that Molly, once she married Sarris”: Author interview with James Wolcott, August 3, 2010.
347 “I once said, in a fit of frustration”: Author interview with Charles Taylor, June 15, 2009.
347 “These people were all housewives”: Ibid.
347 “And what did your mother do?”: Author interview with Polly Frost, April 11, 2009.
347 “I’m frequently asked”: Pauline Kael, introduction, For Keeps (New York: Dutton, 1994).
347 “I kept bringing up the idea of her work on an autobiography”: Letter from Peggy Brooks to William Abrahams, September 29, 1994.
348 “Oh, just let her grow up”: Author interview with Allen Barra, July 16, 2009.
350 “They write as advocates, both feet on the accelerator”: James Wolcott, “Waiting for Godard,” Vanity Fair (April 1997).
350 “He’s a careerist creep”: Author interview with Charles Taylor, June 15, 2009.
350 “I knew she wasn’t happy about it”: Author interview with James Wolcott, August 3, 2010.
351 “no cartoons, no lyricism—just realism”: Audio interview between Pauline Kael and Ray Sawhill, 2000.
351 “desperate to read and to take in everything”: Ibid.
351 “I thought, when I read that, this is what’s wrong with Wes Anderson’s movies”: Author interview with Steve Vineberg, August 26, 2008.
352 “Sometimes, Charlie and I would go to little shops on the way out to visit her”: Author interview with Stephanie Zacharek, September 4, 2009.
352 “They’re more delicious than food now”: Author interview with George and Elizabeth Malko, April 15, 2009.
352 “You look so restive sitting up there next to your mother”: Author interview with Steve Vineberg, August 26, 2008.
352 “A number of people around any diva”: Author interview with Polly Frost, March 20, 2009.
353 “He’s never any good”: Author interview with Ray Sawhill, March 20, 2009.
353 “Well, honey, from the look of things”: Author interview with Steve Vineberg, August 26, 2008.
353 “Presenting Creation, more or less”: Poem by Roy Blount, Jr., composed for Pauline Kael’s eightieth birthday, June 19, 1999.
355 “I don’t know what you know”: Author interview with Carrie Rickey, May 9, 2009.
356 “You tell him, girlie!”: Author interview with Polly Frost, April 11, 2009.
356 “Of course. He’s smart”: Author interview with Dennis Delrogh, April 5, 2011.
356 “Isn’t he amazing?”: Author interview with Michael Sragow, October 21, 2008.
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357 “As a mother, Pauline was exactly what you would expect from reading her or knowing her”: Remarks by Gina James, memorial tribute to Pauline Kael, November 30, 2001.
357 “She was funny and lethal right up to the end”: Remarks by Craig Seligman.
358 “It’s a piece of crap”: Remarks by John Bennet.
358 “Pauline really believed all her life that she was lucky to be able to do what she wanted to do”: Remarks by George Malko.
358 “Upon sober reflection”: Remarks by Arlene Croce.
359 “Now people watch movies so they can stay kids”: New York (February 23, 2009).
360 “And to think . . . there’s not even a decent movie to see”: Remarks by Marcia Nasatir.
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