James Murray Kempton was an American journalist and social and political commentator. He won a National Book Award in 1974 for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al. Reprinted, 1997, with new subtitle The Trial of the Panther 21. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 "for witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career." Wikipedia
“One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.”
"Serpents on the Nile," http://books.google.com/books?id=-tQ1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22One+does+not+attend+this+movie+one+enlists+in+it%22&pg=PA73#v=onepage a review of The Ten Commandments (1956)
