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                                    January 14, 2013

                                                          TRASHING_KAEL
In Section X, OF Pauline Kael's
"Trash, Art, and the Movies" (1969),
we find that Kael-- frequently an
advocate of the joys of popular
trash-- is also (is becoming?) an
advocate for something more:

    "The problem with a popular art
    form is that those who want
    something more are in a hopeless
    minority compared with the millions
    who are always seeing it for the              Damn, ignorant kids.
    first time, or for the reassurance
    and gratification of seeing the                     HONEST_KALE
    conventions fulfilled again."


    Further, she wants more documentaries:

    "After all the years of stale stupid acted-out
    stories, with less and less for me in them, I am
    desperate to know something, desperate for facts,
    for information, for faces of non-actors and for
    knowledge of how people live-- for revelations ... "

             Snide remark: too late.

             Sincere question: so why didn't she
             review any of them?  Weren't there
             any around in '69?


                     (I would guess they were all on TV
                     at that point, and she'd made up her
                     mind to hate TV, so...)





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