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...because of her influence, but because of what some of us once felt Kael herself could have become. If the early '60s, when she wrote for small film journals, literary quarterlies, and an occasional Atlantic or Harper's, she seemed one of the few writers since Agee able to avoid the occasional literary pretensiousness of Eastern critics, the self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self-indulgent: her responses to films are at times...
...however, certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre—a modern standard for which was set by Scott with 1990’s aptly-titled Revenge—and even this craftsman cannot avoid them. Think about it this way: Marc Anthony appears in Man looking like an extra from Wall Street, but that cannot hide his essential sensual smoulder from coming through. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as the CIA’s last intelligence report, but the man who brought the world Ice Man still...
...examples are perhaps most glaringly obvious among Gibson’s savvy successors, with Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson managing not only to avoid has-been status, but to thrive. In the past two months, Spears and Simpson have both scored #1 radio hits—Simpson’s first ever and Spears’ first in nearly four years. Despite the pervasive predictions of a few years ago, neither has graced the pages of Playboy, and for the time being, it doesn’t appear that either will do so as part of a career resuscitation campaign...
...because of her influence, but because of what some of us once felt Kael herself could have become. If the early '60s, when she wrote for small film journals, literary quarterlies, and an occasional Atlantic or Harper's, she seemed one of the few writers since Agee able to avoid the occasional literary pretensiousness of Eastern critics, the self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self-indulgent: her responses to films are at times...
...PROJECT REVIEW committee now studying I.M. Pei's Library plans should consider the benefits the Kennedy Library will bring to Cambridge residents as well as the very real problems in the plans. Parking must be provided either on-site or off-site if Cambridge is to avoid becoming an impenetrable morass of cars; adequate commercial frontage must be provided for visitor services. Inclusion of some taxable property, such as apartments, is desirable; proper pedestrian access to Brattle Square is a must; and some way (such as an overpass) for visitors to get to the Charles without being run down...