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In considering a story for Super Bowl weekend, I did for a moment think about Patty, the woman I met making My Tale of Two Cities in Blawnox who owned an intimate apparel shop and turned “The Terrible Towel” into lingerie. Patty told me that when the Steelers won, she would see a significant boost to her business which is telling about Pittsburghers and their libidos. Frankly, growing up in a sports-dominated town as an awkward, uncoordinated adolescence I had a complicated relationship to football. But a good deal of my childhood resentment towards the sport was healed when I had the privilege of spending some time with Steeler great Franco Harris.

The first time I met Franco was when he tapped me on the shoulder at the premiere of George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead and asked if I could introduce his son Dok to Quentin Tarantino. Quentin was in town for the premiere/fundraiser I was co-hosting with Steeltown Entertainment co-founder Ellen Weiss Kander— an event that the Post-Gazette called the “greatest non-sports love-fest this town has ever seen.” I was surprised when Quentin could recite all of Franco’s stats on the gridiron, but if I recall correctly, I believe Dok later told me he suspected his father had not seen any of Quentin’s films. For many, Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris is most remembered for catching a pass in 1972 which bounced off an Oakland Raiders’ helmet just before it hit the ground and running it into the end zone to win the game. That improbable touchdown catch has been voted number one of the NFL’s top 100 plays and is known as “The Immaculate Reception.” To give a sense of the reverence for number 32 in this region, in the airport, you are greeted by two statues—one of a young George Washington who fought here in the French and Indian War, and the other of Franco Harris catching a football with the caption: “Two great battles fought in Western Pennsylvania.”

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It begins innocuously enough. I am minding my own business — eating, doing work, or socializing at some mundane event or another — and the conversation turns to film. It doesn’t take long for someone, and by someone I usually mean a man, to demonstrate his profound knowledge of cinema by singing the praises of the work of one Quentin Tarantino. I take a deep breath. It is not every day, after all, that I can muster the emotional energy to argue with a self-identified cinephile clad in wire-framed, Warby Parker glasses and a two-sizes-too-big sense of self-importance. The exact impetus of my response is different each time. Often it’s implicit, a positive gesture from my conversation partner to Tarantino’s portrayal of women onscreen. Less often, it is explicit: “And he’s a feminist, too!”

“Quentin Tarantino is not a feminist,” I say.

“But what about ‘Kill Bill?’” the man replies.

You may think I’m exaggerating, but I have had this exact conversation, or a variant of it, dozens of times since the fateful day eight or so years ago that I first sat down to watch “Pulp Fiction.” My experiences bear an uncanny resemblance to those satirized in Ali Elkin’s popular McSweeney’s article, “An Oral History of Quentin Tarantino as Told to Me by Men I’ve Dated.” I wouldn’t say that arguing about the films of Quentin Tarantino single-handedly ended my last relationship, but it certainly didn’t help.

The issue isn’t that I haven’t seen “Kill Bill.” I have. In fact, I’ve seen every one of Tarantino’s films. It’s not that I don’t like them, either. I do. My personal favorite is “Reservoir Dogs,” in which Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) delivers an extensive monologue about why he doesn’t tip waitresses — a film where, fittingly, not a single line of dialogue is spoken by a woman. It goes almost without saying that a film can be good without being overtly feminist or overtly feminist without being good. But something about Tarantino’s particular b

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Who Is Quentin Tarantino?

Born in Tennessee in 1963, Quentin Tarantino moved to California at age 4. His love of movies led to a job in a video store, during which time he wrote the scripts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers. Tarantino's directorial debut came with 1992's Reservoir Dogs, but he received widespread critical and commercial acclaim with Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he won an Academy Award for best screenplay. Subsequent features included Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Vol. 2 (2004) and Grindhouse (2007). Tarantino earned several award nominations for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012), the latter garnering him a second Oscar win for best screenplay, and he went on to write and direct The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019).

Early Life

Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the only child of Connie McHugh, who is part Cherokee and part Irish, and actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before Quentin was born.

Moving to California at the age of 4, Tarantino developed his love for movies at an early age. One of his earliest memories is of his grandmother taking him to see a John Wayne movie. Tarantino also loved storytelling, but he showed his creativity in unusual ways. "He wrote me sad Mother's Day stories. He'd always kill me and tell me how bad he felt about it," Connie once told Entertainment Weekly. "It was enough to bring a tear to a mother's eye."

Tarantino loathed school, choosing to spend his time watching movies or reading comics rather than studying. The only subject that appealed to him was history. "History was cool and I did well there, because it was kind of like the movies," he told Entertainment Weekly. After dropping out of high school, Tarantino worked as an usher at an adult film theater for a time. He also took acting cl