Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael
Frederic Michael Raphaelis an American-born, British-educated, screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 August 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer