That's one way to start.

The 'Trix has a great post wherein she simultaneously praises and cuts down an essay by Alan Vanneman. Mr. Vanneman writes (the often-written) hatchet-job about how Pauline Kael might be a good prose-stylist, but she's a shitty film critic. Blah blah blah. We've been through all this before. But I must give him credit for his insanely smug opening. Check it:

"What can you say about a woman like Pauline Kael? Well, for one thing, she was a midget, less than five feet tall, although she always liked to claim the full sixty inches.

Life is tough for a midget. People pat you on the head and pass you by. And for the first forty-odd years of her life, Pauline Kael was passed by."

Oh damn. He went there.