Features - Man Of Action: Hunter S. Thompson Keeps Moving (Relix Revisited) Pauline Kael Reviews: The Ones She Got Wrong. In her review of the new Pauline Kael biography, Slate’s Dana Stevens says that “if you write about movies in America today (and in the age of the Internet, who doesn’t?) , you define yourself at least in part in relation to Kael.” David Haglund is a senior editor at Slate. He runs Brow Beat, Slate's culture blog. Follow him on Twitter. Follow It’d be hard to disagree. Kael herself, though, prompted plenty of disagreement, among friends and foes alike. Stephanie Zacharek, the long-time Salon reviewer who’s now at Movieline, knew Kael well (see, for instance, this lovely tribute she wrote after Kael’s death in 2001).
She distrusts Hitchcock’s mechanics—the whirring of the gears at work always bothered her. That said, I don’t think I really struggled much with any review by Pauline that I disagreed with. J. That piece does not appear to be online, but it’s included in Hoberman’s 1991 anthology Vulgar Modernism. Keith Phipps of The A.V. Slate. Books.
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