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Quality survives. Leonard Maltin
Quality Survives
Timing in life is everything. Leonard Maltin
Life Timing Everything
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. Leonard Maltin
States Inside Angeles Never Concentration Most Greatest Los Los Angeles Been Surviving Movie Them United Palaces United States Residents
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. Leonard Maltin
Good Great Memories Interview Peggy Peggy Lee Had Were His Lee Upbeat Walt Walt Disney Warm Working Disney Fortune Team Good Fortune Her
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. Leonard Maltin
Thought Made Sentiment Took Kind Allen Clause Layered Delightful Onto Tim Modern Sensibility Santa Film
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture. Leonard Maltin
Best Beast First Picture Beauty Best Picture Feature Animated Nominated Became Ever
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. Leonard Maltin
Attempt Animation Polar Express Film
Audiences deserve better. Leonard Maltin
Better Audiences Deserve
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility. Leonard Maltin
People Think Destroy Critic Would Spot Were Than Less Away Credibility Right Right Away Honest
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. Leslie Fiedler
Class Culture Clothes Distinction Wipe Ready-Made American Blue Blue Jeans American Culture Want Jeans Coca-Cola Things
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. Leslie Fiedler
Poet Like Know Read Anybody Middle Wanting Centuries Century Next Should
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. Leslie Fiedler
Art Good History You Science Criticism Way Read Judged Should
Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying. Leslie Fiedler
Saying You Met France Could He Know Talk Him Because Person Whether Agree
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. Leslie Fiedler
Thought Frail Married Stein He Almost Gertrude Stein Really Hemingway
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. Leslie Fiedler
Books Memoir Area He Between Protagonist Wrote Calls His Often Novel Novels Henry Miller Gray Gray Area
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. Leslie Fiedler
Good Will Poet Despite Those Bad Admire Seems Poems Fact He Know Least Being Last
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. Leslie Fiedler
You Writing Enemies Gave One Friend Make Because Friend Up
I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk. Leslie Fiedler
Better Liked Talk Heard Even Her
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. Leslie Fiedler
Sex Become Think Monumental Memoir About Had He Wrote Force Because Nonfiction Huge Huge Influence American Influence Literature Novel Henry Publishing Miller
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. Leslie Fiedler
Funny Me Think Funny Thing Way Through Wake Essays Happened Pattern Thing
I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling. Leslie Fiedler
Indian Fond Wrestling Arm Used
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. Leslie Fiedler
Man Writing Old Paper Signature About More Writer Never Had He Put Been His Years Than James Anything Who Cooper Here
I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off. Leslie Fiedler
Time Book Tough First Pay Way Complex More Tough Time Had He Liked Him Read Got Off Very Much Really Less Each
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end. Leslie Fiedler
Say Pick Wrong New Look Edition Truly Huckleberry Huckleberry Finn End Up Page Yours Last
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. Leslie Fiedler
Thought Writer He Comic Still Kafka
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. Leslie Fiedler
Better Black Become Books Faulkner He Like She Female Lot Clone Did Authors Much Really Early
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