Pauline Kael

<b><b><b>A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most influential movie critics.<b>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> <p/>Engrossing and thoroughly researched.<b>--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b> <p/>- </b>A<i> New York Times Book Review</i> Notable Book of 2011 <b>-</b></b> <p/>The first major biography of the most influential powerful and controversial film critic of the twentieth century</b><p>Pauline Kael was in the words of <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>'s movie reviewer Owen Gleiberman the Elvis or Beatles of film criticism. During her tenure at <i>The New Yorker</i> from 1968 to 1991 she was the most widely read and often enough the most provocative critic in America. In this first full-length biography of the legend who changed the face of film criticism acclaimed author Brian Kellow (author of <i>Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers Hollywood's First Superagent</i>) gives readers a richly detailed view of Kael's remarkable life--from her youth in rural California to her early struggles to establish her writing career to her peak years at <i>The New Yorker</i>.</p>