Word: salieri
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McKellen has had tiny roles in flop movies (Last Action Hero, I'll Do Anything), and though he originated the role of Salieri onstage in Amadeus, he didn't get the part in Milos Forman's film; maybe Forman thought F. Murray Abraham was more photogenic. Or perhaps he detected an unease in McKellen's film presence. "I belong on a stage," the actor says. "I feel totally at home. But at a studio, surrounded by other experts who all have their contributions to make, I used to feel a terrible pressure as the person in front of the camera...
...that Ono was not invited to the memorial service Paul McCartney held for Linda in New York City last month. Paul and Yoko were never close, but detente was declared when Free as a Bird was released in 1995. Then last year Ono told the BBC that Paul was Salieri to her late spouse John Lennon's Mozart. This brought on a new frost in relations and led to Ono's being snubbed when Linda died. Could this be Ono's return volley...
...laws of cause and effect had been rescinded. In such a culture, to be obscure is by definition to be a failure. The obscure man asks bitterly, "Why is he famous, and not I? What's he got that I haven't got?" Manifestly, nothing. It is not the Salieri-Mozart configuration, mediocrity envying genius; today, let some unsung brilliant political thinker wonder why Dick Morris is famous for sucking a call girl's toes...
...might think this makes me bitter, playing digital Salieri to Kinsley's Mozart. But I am a realist. I need Kinsley the same way a coal miner needs his canary. Which is to say, if I see him topple from his perch as an online publisher, I'm dashing for the exit. That's part of the reason I made a point of meeting him for dinner the last time I visited Seattle. I was worried...
...mystery intact. The matter of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, and which of them was telling the truth, became a litmus test for several generations, a marker not only of political sympathies but also of intellectual class and sensibility. Hiss and Chambers were the cold war's Mozart and Salieri, and their mysteries were multilayered. If you went below the murk of espionage and infiltration and double lives--a subject fascinating in itself--you penetrated to the deeper strangeness of the two men's psychologies and, yet deeper, to the disconcerting affinities...