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...eggs and mooning over one another. Sebastian introduces Charles to his family - in this film living in a statelier home than any Masterpiece Theater ever dreamed of - which includes his sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell), and his sternly religious mother (Emma Thompson, splendidly playing as far from her usual inviting self as it's possible to get). Now Charles and Julia start eyeing one another, Sebastian starts drinking himself into oblivion, and a happily romantic ending to the Charles-Julia relationship is narrowly averted...
...essay would analyze--lovingly, pitilessly--that category of entertainment that celebrates people who are lonely, misunderstood and defiantly eccentric but who, we're supposed to understand, are secretly cooler than everybody else, if only they knew it. Sontag would locate the elusive line that separates Bad Quirk--annoying, self-satisfied idiosyncrasy--from Good Quirk--the authentic weirdness of a genuinely unique sensibility...
...from the pre-Amazon era forms a transatlantic friendship with an English bookseller. Hanff's book is a work of Good Quirk, the very best. But it has been done. And there is every indication that Guernsey will devolve from here into a rote exercise in Anglophilia and cozy, self-congratulatory bibliomania...
...deception by friends or the Serbian government. But his ability to so completely transform himself--and so completely convince those who lived and worked alongside him--is more difficult to explain. In his study on the psychology of mass murder, The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton wrote, "No individual self is inherently evil, murderous or genocidal. Yet under certain conditions virtually any self is capable of becoming all of these." In Karadzic's case, the reverse was true. The warlord charged with ordering the massacre of more than 7,000 people in Srebrenica became a harmless quack described as "friendly...
...Best Drama Emmy, is deliciously curated, from the omnipresent cigarettes to the rocket-cone brassieres (and casual sexism) to the cool modernist sets. But the subtle, deliberately paced drama has a wider sense of history. Don is not defined by his time. He's an American archetype of self-reinvention: a Gatsby or a Huck Finn, who lights out for the territory but cannot escape from himself...