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‘Scoundrel-Czar’ Responds to White

Over at his blog, The Village Voice’s J. Hoberman has taken time out of his busy schedule “pulling the strings of his myriad media puppets … like some nefarious, shadowy dictator in a Fritz Lang silent†to respond to Armond White’s Greenberg review, in which the New York Press critic blasted the “scoundrel-czar of contemporary film criticism†for last week digging up the 1998 review in which White allegedly called for Noah Baumbach’s “retroactive abortion.†Says Hoberman: “Imagine if I had written something about him rather than making available something he wrote.†[Overlooked and Hoberated/VV]

‘Scoundrel-Czar’ Responds to White