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:" I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine ... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin — of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas.

I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe.

Pauline Kael lost it at the movies ; I lost it at Mad magazine.