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If a team of scientists crossed the DNA of Edmund Wilson with Pauline Kael, and added a dash of Wilfrid Sheed, they would come up with Clive James.
  • "The greatest living critic"?

    This paragraph alone suggests otherwise.

    The first is from a review of a Liza Minnelli concert that he wrote in the Observer in 1974: "Ms. Minnelli sang the Lorenz Hart song 'My Romance' as if her task were to put significance into the lyrics instead of getting it out."

    Why would the "greatest living critic" even be attending a Liza Minnelli concert? Does he have a review of Cher's seemingly endless farewell tour as well?