The Critical Task Is Necessarily

I Believe That We Respond Most And Best To Work In Any Art Form (and To Other Experience As Well) If We Are Pluralistic, Flexible, Relative In Our Judgments, If We Are Electic.

Kevin Costner Has Feathers In His Hair And Feathers In His Head. The Indians Should Have Called Him 'plays With Camera.

Movies Are A Combination Of Art And Mass Medium, But Television Is So Single In Its Purpose-selling-that It Operates Without That Painful, Poignant Mixture Of Aspiration And Effort And Compromise.

In The Sixties, The Recycling Of Pop Culture Turning It Into Pop Art And Camp Had Its Own Satirical Zest. Now We're Into A Different Kind Of Recycling. Moviemakers Give Movies Of The Past An Authority That Those Movies Didn't Have; They Inflate Images That May Never Have Compelled Belief, Images That Were No More Than Shorthand Gestures And They Use Them Not As Larger-than-life Jokes But As Altars.

Television As We Have It Isn't An Art Form - It's A Piece Of Furniture That Is Good For A Few Things.