Word: manic
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Back in Torrance, Ryan and his friends are finishing their game. They have read the instructional books, watched the pros on TV, and are surprisingly good players. At one point Ryan even thought he wanted to be a professional after he leaves high school. But there's no manic intensity to their game. Rather, the boys have a laidback camaraderie, cracking jokes about who's the best liar and paying as much attention to one another as they do to the cards. That camaraderie takes a break when the poker game does and the boys turn to playing video games...
...good, the wise-guy observer thinks--The Bill Clinton Story at last comes to the screen. That notion is underlined by the fact that James Carville, Clinton's manic political operative, dreamed up the idea of making this picture and is credited as one of its executive producers. But the movie, All the King's Men, is not a cheesy, made-for-TV biopic. It is, in fact, a conscientious adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer prizewinning novel, which was also the basis of a much more rambunctious movie by Robert Rossen, which won the 1949 Best Picture...
...seen a typical Black performance--as the manic record-store clerk in High Fidelity, the manic but sweet wannabe rock star in The School of Rock or the manic and sadistic half of Tenacious D, the world's most delusional folk-metal duo--this might seem like a revelatory moment, as well as a good time to put in a call to child services. Black, 37, can be irresponsible and gross and all those other things associated with burly comics since John Belushi first belched his way into moviegoers' hearts. But for Black, chilaquiles moments are actually pretty rare...
...birth parents were manic depressives. I'm adopted. In my junior year of high school, when I was 16 years old, my parents filed for divorce at the same time that I was taken off medication for epilepsy. That same pill acts as a mood stabilizer, but we didn't know I had bipolar [disorder] at that point, and I'd been on it since...
...September 2000, I was more and more manic, depressed and paranoid. The pills were not helping. I said, I can't do this anymore. I was tired, I was tired of fighting the disease, I was tired of myself, I was tired of looking at myself in the mirror. I hated myself. It was that simple. I was angry with the world, I was angry with bipolar, I was angry with my parents for making me take these pills...