Stephen E Philion says:
>On Thu, 24 May 2001, Louis Proyect wrote:
>
>> One of the explanations for the poor quality of Woody Allen's movies, Saul
>> Bellow's novels, etc., is that when you become a mega-star, an editor or
>> critic has a tendency to fawn over everything that is produced because of
>> prior reputation. Since these artists are ego-driven to begin with, you
>> can't expect them to correct themselves.
>>
>> Is it any different with our academic Marxist superstars like Brenner and
>> Wood? With a lifetime of blue ribbon awards and graduate students showering
>> adulation on them, we must expect a decline in self-critical awareness.
>
>I dunno, I seem to remember a time you thought the world of George
>Comninel, who was one of Wood's star students. I guess now he might be in
>contention for big bad guy, like Wood or Brenner...
Lou's criticism of the stage theory very heavily drew upon George
Comninel's work:
<http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/indian/comninel.htm>, so Lou is
"Ellen Woodian" in this sense.
Yoshie
