Robert Polito on Barbara Payton - 'I got news for you baby – nobody’s civilized. You peel off a little skin and you got raw flesh', Patti Smith on Jeanne Moreau, Geoffrey O'Brien on Dana Andrews, Greil Marcus on J.T.Walsh; twenty others: Elmer Fudd, Warner Bros.' Fat Men, Margaret Dumont, Warren Oates on the cover: the toughest wild bunch.
And Stuart Klawans and his date's 'encounter' with Sarge, from The Bandwagon', 'With a nod toward my fiancée, Sarge told me, “You’re with a beautiful woman. You got good taste.” Then the one true critic on the corner grinned at her and said, “You got good taste, too. But his is better.'