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James Gilbert Paltridge A fixture in Bay Area radio for over half a century, Gil Paltridge ’35, MBA ’64, died July 20 in Walnut Creek. He entered the field of broadcasting soon after graduation, co-founding a radio station in San Fernando in 1947 before returning to the Bay Area in the 1950s and managing many stations, including KGO and KYA. He remained close to the University throughout his life, serving as telecommunications adviser and assistant to UC President Clark Kerr, associate director of the UC Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, and as a director of the California Alumni Association. Paltridge also worked in Africa and Asia for the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He is survived by his children, Emily and James Jr., and four grandchildren. Pauline Kael Passionately opinionated, wickedly witty, and endlessly energetic, Pauline Kael ’40 died September 3 at her home in Massachusetts. As much social commentator as film critic, her essays analyzed not only the movies she saw, but also the film industry, directors, actors, rival critics, and society as a whole. Though many disagreed with her taste in films, her reviews were often more entertaining than the films themselves, and her no-holds-barred writing inspired a generation of pop-culture critics who attempted to imitate her inimitable style. A student of philosophy at Berkeley, beginning in 1953 she wrote movie reviews for San Francisco’s City Lights magazine and provided film commentary on radio station KPFA. In the mid-’50s, Kael used her position as manager of the Cinema Guild Theater, a small repertory film house on Telegraph Avenue, to educate Bay Area filmgoers in classic, foreign, and unusual films, sometimes showing a favorite film several times a year until it found the audience she felt it deserved. She quit her job at KPFA in 1963—while on the air—and moved to New York, where she wrote for several national magazines before joining the staff of The New Yorker, where she reigned as perhaps the country’s most influential film critic from 1968 to 1991. She is survived by a daughter and grandson.  Return to Top |
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