Monkey's contender for headline of the week: Kiss Kiss, Gang Bang: Pauline Kael, Deep Throat and The New Yorker. This fruity little number adorns Lili Anolik's New York Observer piece about the battles between Kael and her New Yorker editor William Shawn over references to sex in her film reviews. Apparently Shawn once ran the red pen through Kael's description of Jack Nicholson film Goin' South as "a commercial for cunnilingus". So no guesses what happened when Kael wanted to review Deep Throat, although it has been suggested she managed to slip an oblique reference to it into her piece about Last Tango in Paris. A case of coitus interruptus, perhaps?
