Sontag & Kael

Craig Seligman adored his friend Pauline Kael for her easy acceptance of pop culture in the context of her fiercely intelligent movie reviews. He writes approvingly of her here, even as he writes with less tolerance of a critic he feels is equally important, Susan Sontag. Sontag, Seligman feels, is arrogant and elitist and, worst of all, humorless.Elaine Bartlett served 16 years in a New York State prison for smuggling four ounces of cocaine from New York to Albany. Incarcerated in 1983, she was granted clemency in 1999, and immediately began working to repeal the punitive Rockefeller drug laws. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.