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Richard Schickel Biography

Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time magazine from 1965–2010, and also wrote for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His last writings about film were for Truthdig.

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Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.

Dramatic, Gum, Reality, Sitting, Taken

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

Journalism, Memories, Memory, Soul

Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

Character, Children, Loathe, Pharmaceutical, Wife, Women

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.

Age, Inevitably, Limbo, Lost, Males

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

Exercise, Lying, Media Control, Power, Stuff, True

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Ceaselessly, Law, Pause, Perspective, Years

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Defame, Doe, Humor, Jest, Like, Like You

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Movie, Art, Stars, Artist, Object

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

Character, Decoration, Exercise, Fate, Movie, Primarily

Luck always favors the comely.

Luck, Favors, Comely

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Commitment, Fear, Glowing, Male, Males