Alexandra Jacobs takes a long look at Antonia Quirke's Choking on Marlon Brando in this coming Sunday's New York Times Book Review:
"Amazing it is, and amusing, to watch her tremulously confront cinematic demigods in person: donning a jaunty polka-dot scarf to interview the dour director Todd Solondz for a BBC documentary; botching an encounter with a stoic Jeff Bridges and self-disgustingly getting drunk afterward. And her many and varied romantic foibles, while surely painful at the time they were suffered, are exceedingly comic in retrospect. It’s about time Pauline Kael met Bridget Jones..."
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