George Roy Hill, the film director, was a cousin of John Doar’s. They both came from a very small town, New Richmond, Wisconsin. One evening, in the late seventies, Mr. Hill, his wife, Mr. Doar, and I were having dinner. Mr. Hill said that he had gone to great lengths, and incurred high expenses for the studio, in using genuine outdoor sounds for his movie. Ms. Kael, who disliked all his films, had written, with bitter scorn, that he had not troubled with the authentic, but had used canned sounds. "Why that’s awful," I said. "You should have asked for a correction." "I did," he said. I asked
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