Word: rottenness
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Lithgow, who is currently starring in Broadway’s “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” is best-known for his role as extraterrestrial-in-disguise Dr. Dick Solomon on NBC’s 1990s sitcom “3rd Rock From...
...movie’s story is grim. The doomed protagonist Anakin understands that something is rotten in the Republic he lives in, but it’s easier for him to turn against the outsider Jedi order who are suspicious of the powers that be, than it is for him to turn against those powers themselves. The Republic’s increasingly undemocratic Chancellor, like many such leaders, derives his sway from his supreme confidence that his decisions are right (as opposed to the wise but far-from-omniscient Jedi master Yoda, who is constantly wrinkling his brows in thought...
...believe that the government is getting away with such a dystopian shenanigan, but in fact, we can believe it. Of course it’s easier to blame some maverick reporter for screwing things up than to accept that the ruling structure of our great nation might actually be rotten to the core. Like Anakin did, Americans are seizing on the small errors of the few instead of the overarching wrongs of the powerful...
...boring. You stand there with a glass of Mouton Rothschild and your fois-gras canape asking movie stars questions that are supposed to sound like congratulations. Then the stars leave and you have to talk to your fellow journalists. Of course, all they want to talk about is how rotten it is to be at Cannes. Which is boring too. Don't you just hate complainers...
Unfortunately, Lithgow will have to miss it for the first time this year—he can’t really afford to skip out as the star of the new Broadway play, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” twice in a month. “It’s simply not done,” he sighs, with the overdone emphasis of an aging movie starlet, but still meaning every ounce of what he says...