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March 8, 2007 by Tim Riley

Levene's LouiseBrooks keeps showing up: on the latest NYRB subscription dropout card, and you have to wonder: what demo does this caricature appeal to? The 75-and-over crowd? Those lecherous old poets? Does this ancient ingenue actually sell magazines? Does anybody write in saying “OMIGawd, I never realized this august book review actually covered my teenage hand-job fantasy Louise! Sign me up for life!” Does anybody remember the major story this publication ran on Ms. Brooks? Or the byline? Can anybody name a single film Brooks acted in?

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