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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      1. There was once a boy in Texas who grew up in New Yorker worshipping household. He wanted more than anything to enter into the world of the New Yorker. And when he became a filmmaker he imposed himself on its former film critic. This is story about Wes Anderson & Pauline Kael.pic.twitter.com/IJE6fCmKvE

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      2. There's a recurring Wes Anderson character, the young boy or teen or barely adult man who yearns to enter into the world of adult hood, who pushes himself into the world of adults & becomes emotionally entangled with their lives. It's hard not so see that as autobiographical

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      3. Rushmore (1998) was Anderson's second film but the first one with his signature style of deadpan artifice. Kael had already retired from the New Yorker when he made it, but Anderson wanted to get her stamp of approvalz; the Andersonian callow youth winning adult approval.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      4. Kael was already deep into Parkinson's when Anderson called her. He mentioned Bill Murray was in Rushmore & Kael responded, ''Which Bill Murray?'' Nevertheless, Anderson pushed on. She said, send over a tape. He replied, no, I'll rent a theater to screen it for you.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      5. Kael agrees. Anderson shows up to her house to take her to the screening. She surveys him and says, ''My God, you're just a kid." A scene that could almost have been in the very movie Anderson was taking her to see.pic.twitter.com/tE7thFn25q

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      6. The screening doesn't go as Anderson hoped for. After the movie, Kael said, ''I don't know what you've got here, Wes.'' Anderson nodded. Kael: ''Did the people who gave you the money read the script?''

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      7. After the screening Anderson takes Kael back to her house. They talk. Kael offers him some of her books (first editions, hardcover) and signs one, ''For Wes Anderson, With affection and a few queries. Pauline Kael.''

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

      8. This is a bittersweet story, about hero-worship and belatedness. We can never really meet our heroes because by the time we get to see them, the moment of heroism is already gone, they are different. More fundamentally, our heroes can never see us as we want to be seen.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

          9. I bring up the Kael story because I think it offers us a way into The French Dispatch, Anderson's latest attempt to steamroll through time itself and magically enter into the world he read about as a boy.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2021

          10. The French Dispatch is a divisive movie: the supreme example of Anderson's imperial nostalgia, his attempt by sheer artifice to undo & remake history. Depending on viewers, it's either masterful or cloying & empty. @DavidKlion & I take it up here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-well-always-have-paris?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter …

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        1. Tim Willcutts‏ @TimWillcutts 20 Nov 2021
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          Meeting my hero Billy Bragg changed my view of celebrity in subtle still evolving ways

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        1. Patrick Anderson‏ @pimlius 20 Nov 2021
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          Given the quotes from Pauline Kael in this thread alone, it’s not clear that her moment of heroism was gone…pic.twitter.com/JsFVj7B3Hr

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        1. Mayadog‏ @Mayadog5 20 Nov 2021
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          Thank you for this

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        1. Jonas Persson‏ @BishopBlougram 20 Nov 2021
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          That's a lovely story. Reminds me of Groucho Marx meeting T.S. Eliot, or Joyce running into Proust... A fan spotted Pynchon with his wife in Central Park once, eager to imbibe his PoMo wisdom. There were sirens and he said something like, "Man, it's the cops again."

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        1. Suzanne Forbes  ♿️‏ @slurketta 20 Nov 2021
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          I refer you to my post about being friends with Chris Claremont in the '80s. Sometimes we see them and they see us, and it's still not enough.https://www.chipinhead.com/2017/05/18/new-mutants-love-story-got-drawing-comics-woman/ …

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        2. Howard Sherman‏Verified account @HESherman 20 Nov 2021
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          I have met some of heroes and they have been awesome. I've even become friends with a few. A some have been extraordinarily generous. There is no one size fits all here.

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        3. Howard Sherman‏Verified account @HESherman 20 Nov 2021
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          Exhibit A http://www.hesherman.com/otherwriting/2003/07/01/hosting-miss-hepburn/ …

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        1. Milt Ruthven‏ @MiltonRuthven 20 Nov 2021
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          There's an intense nostalgia for late 20th C upper middle class / upper middlebrow world in Wes Anderson, as embalmed and romanticized as a Western, or one of those movies set in heartland cornfields.

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