Never gone with the wind

The great movie critic Pauline Kael was born on this day in 1919. She died in 2001.

"There are so many things that we, have lived through them, or passed over them, never want to think about again," Kael wrote. "But in movies nothing is cleaned away, sorted out, purposely discarded. There's a kind of hopelessness about it: what does not deserve to last lasts, and so it all begins to seem one big pile of junk."