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...covers U.S. culture with an emphasis on music). He picks up a notebook and draws a big circle labeled politics intersected by satellites of books, Hollywood, media and music. "Instead of writing about the highest-grossing film, we'll write about the best campaign ad." Kennedy, who has a habit of referring to himself as "sort of'' an editor, laughs at his own doodling. Serious yet humble, he's picked the brains of hundreds of experts...
...which would test all of his knowledge about literature. The strain of this make-or-break test induced constant nausea and what he calls "social phobia," a fear of performing in social situations. Things were only made worse by roommate Oswald, an anti-social computer programmer with a bad habit of urinating in a glass jar in various parts of the apartment. Oswald is both comic relief and a warning of what Marler could turn into; it's only a short path, he intimates, form his own awkwardness to his roommate's bizarre aggression...
...faux Shakespeare that worked so well in "The Madness of King George" falls flat here, and the Scottish brogue overpowers some of the humor. There are just a few too many "whists" floating around. The best lines go to Cunningham, of course. When asked if he makes a habit of "buggering young boys," he replies that the last boy he buggered (several years before) he mistook for a girl, "as I'm sure has happened to you gentlemen...
...veworked at pretty much every ice cream parlor inthe Boston area at one time or another, and I'veassisted a strange Willy Wonka-esque financialwizard during my years at Harvard. But these jobswere rarely that time-consuming, and my paychecksonly went towards expenses of my own devising: mycrack habit, expensive hair products, etc. Ihaven't been paying my tuition bills, you see. Itake things like heat and electricity for granted:some guy shows up every few months and putzesaround my family's basement for awhile, but I'venever been sure if he's reading the gas meter orremoving the asbestos...
...powerful foils to Swanson's persona, Wilder and his camera wisely sweep them to the edges of the screen to focus on Norma. Swanson's performance is something beyond acting; her Norma lives every moment on two planes, in the mundane world and on celluloid. She has a habit of pausing almost unnoticeably as she speaks, giving the effect of a flickering silent film, posing briefly for the camera, then continuing...