John Gregory Dunne on the rewards of ignorance

The New Yorker’s famed movie critic Pauline Kael got many things wrong in service of her ideas and theories, the novelist and critic John Gregory Dunne claimed, and she got away with it. (His wife, Joan Didion, once suggested she get “vocational guidance.”) Here he writes about her claim that Orson Welles stole credit from Herman Mankiewicz after accusi…