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In The Arts, The Critic Is The Only Independent Source Of Information. The Rest Is Advertising.

In San Francisco, Vulgarity, "bad Taste," Ostentation Are Regarded As A Kind Of Alien Blight, An Invasion Or Encroachment From Outside. In Los Angeles, There Is So Much Money And Power Connected With Ostentation That Is No Longer Ludicrous: It Commands A Kind Of Respect. For If The Mighty Behave Like This, Then Quiet Good Taste Means That You Can't Afford The Conspicuous Expenditures, And You Become A Little Ashamed Of Your Modesty And Propriety.

The Movies Have Been So Rank The Last Couple Of Years That When I See People Lining Up To Buy Tickets I Sometimes Think That The Movies Aren't Drawing An Audience - They're Inheriting An Audience. People Just Want To Go To A Movie. They're Stung Repeatedly, Yet Their Desire For A Good Movie - For Any Movie - Is So Strong That All Over The Country They Keep Lining Up.

I Live In A Rather Special World. I Only Know One Person Who Voted For Nixon. Where They Are I Don't Know. They're Outside My Ken. But Sometimes When I'm In A Theater I Can Feel Them.

Writers Who Go To Hollywood Still Follow The Classic Pattern: Either You Get Disgusted By 'them' And You Leave Or You Want The Money And You Become Them.