Comments on: Mamma Mia: Delayed Revenge Against Pauline Kael?

By: Ken Connor

Ken Connor — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:18:41 +0000

At least someone like Madonna has the basic courage of her near total lack of talent. I’ve always said that the reason is I dislike Madonna is also the reason that I do like her—her being so successful based almost entirely on having no talent. Streep, however, comes off even worse because of all this so-called “prestige” she’s been able to garner due to all thos pseudo-dramatic roles of hers. She’s a cipher. You don’t feel any natural richness within her as you do with, say, Barbra Streisand, a much finer and more emotionally accessible actress even though La Babs may not have the “training” that Streep has. What’s that old joke about Meryl—She has “tecnhique” to burn and that’s exactly what she should do with it.

By: Erin D.

Erin D. — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:11:15 +0000

Hilarious!

By: Ryland Walker Knight

Ryland Walker Knight — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:24:37 +0000

Yuck all around.

By: lump516

lump516 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:07:04 +0000

Too bad Kael isn’t around now–she would no doubt cut Streep down to size. Kael was one of the few critics who didn’t fall for Streep’s WASP-goddess act–for one thing, she was a woman and not a lesbian, so she was immune to the long blonde hair and brick-shithouse Brunhilde build that Streep had used to get most of the good parts at Yale drama school (unkept promises to Robert Brustein, no doubt)and stir the crotches of the New York theater critics back in the 1970’s. She’s a good, competent actress, particularly in bitchy comedy, but not the miracle so many thought she was . . .