Pauline Kael

Great find!

Woody and Kael are really interesting together. I don't think I've heard anyone else able to match her energy so well.

Thanks for posting that...I just barely started, but I always wonder when Kael says things like young children are responding to Sleeper--is her sample size her own grandchild? Was she moonlighting in a daycare center at the time?

I used to get on Chuck Eddy, too, when he'd make broad statements about Nirvana and teenagers (or whatever)--who have you been talking to besides your own two kids? I'm sure I've been guilty of the same with regards to students of mine.

Let the record show that I'm the first person in the entire history of the world to have laser eye surgery performed while wearing a Pauline Kael (Going Steady) T-shirt.

(Minor preventative stuff--thought I was just there for a consultation, but the doctor said let's do it now.)

When was that?!
Seems like Chuck Eddy is now or soon will be in his third decade of raising teens, so maybe any references are or will at some point be more credible---Kael could be v. selective about honoring kid feedback, judging by David Denby's account of turning up at her place w equally halcyon Paul Warshow after seeing The Graduate, talking about how much they enjoyed it. Kael said, "Oh no. You didn't," or something equally denialist.

Laser eye surgery with a Pauline Kael T-shirt on was this afternoon (played tennis later); haranguing Chuck was late '90s, right around the time when he started at the Voice. I think Linus was probably a teenager.