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Originally Posted by David
Far out! You're back for a visit!! Avoid the sevenwonders board at all costs. It'll chew you up & spit you out, as it did me.
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Poor thing. I don't really post anywhere anymore, but it's certainly funny to read about my "following trends" and supposedly setting up camp over there when I do pop up to post a few times. That place is as much fun as a colonic.
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Originally Posted by David
Thanks for uploading these additional Kael pieces. I actually have them on CD but I really enjoy them. I have some more Kael, including a radio show entitled "What's Happened to Film Criticism?" recorded March 12, 1963 & another radio show about film since World War II, plus a show she was guest on for a group of college writers at some Southern university, where the kids ask her questions.
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You're welcome; thank you. You've got some great stuff. I don't have much Kael audio aside from what I uploaded and what I downloaded from you, which I'm loving. John Simon sure could be a blowhard. I think he likes the sound of his own voice as much as he likes tossing digs at Minnelli and her "blubber lips." I bought "John Simon On Film Criticism: 1982-2001" back during the summer, which is a pretty hefty volume, and I thought it was a pretty good collection, but I was disappointed that it was sanitized of some of his most vicious pieces and lashings. Most shocking was that he liked "As Good As It Gets." That was a new one to me.
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Originally Posted by David
I saw Kael speak only once -- at UCLA in 1986 to a sold-out audience -- but I'd like to hear a tape of that show.
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What did she talk about? My jealously has been ignited since I'm too young to have had the opportunity to see her speak, but I'd love to hear about it.