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May 31, 2005
Pauline Kael once said...
The Philly Inquirer, quoting an article by Todd S. Purdum in the NY Times, reminds us that the late New Yorkerette didn't like The Sound of Music: "Pauline Kael, the reigning film critic of her era, denounced it as "the sugar-coated lie that people seem to want to eat." In the May 24 Wall Street Journal, Leon de Winter cited an evergreen: "The entire Dutch cabinet is in a state of disbelief, like Pauline Kael, the New York Times film critic, who remarked after Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern in 1972: "How can that be? No one I know voted for Nixon."" (De Winter is described as an adjunct fellow of the conservative Hudson Institute.) Writing at Cinematical about Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, soon to appear on DVD, Ryan Stewart cites this Kaeloid: "I’m reminded of something Pauline Kael once said: When there is no respect on either side, commerce is a dirty word."
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