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...wedding in Newport, R.I. a half century earlier. The bride (Gummer) loved Harris too, but it is Ann (played as a young woman by Danes), an aspiring jazz singer, who gets close to him. Instructive tragedy, however, interrupts their romantic interlude, warning them that the way of the uppercrust WASP must remain dutiful and joyless...
...average person is getting worse.” On the left, Utne-reading Luddites condemn materialism and consumerism, longing for a squalid, pre-industrial past. On the right, conservative nativists fear immigration and social change—god forbid we lose the WASP culture that made this country great. And elites across the spectrum bemoan the base popularization of high culture...
...Lampoon as the campus humor rag—mainly because the sensationalist social commentary printed neither represents conservatives nor our values. The latest issue features denunciations of modern ballet as “whimsical and weightless,” commentaries arguing for a “healthy and overflowing WASP culture” and calls for all men to buy stockings at the Andover Shop—“a delightful island of elegance in a sea of slovenliness.” At the same time, the back page, the trademark section of the paper, has been downgraded...
Maybe, as the famous Whiffenpoof Song would have it, the sons of Wasp privilege are just lost little lambs. But since some of them spent their postgraduate years founding the CIA, Robert De Niro's finely tuned film wonders if their arrogant sense of entitlement subverted this nation's best, most idealistic impulses. Good question, good movie: very dark, very well written and acted--and very, very worrying...
...perfect breeding place for another, grander secret society, World War II's Office of Strategic Services, which morphed into the CIA. Robert De Niro's movie (skillfully written by Eric Roth) is a very persuasive and thoughtful study of how the youthful and more muscular scions of the Wasp patriciate imposed their values, their sense of entitlement, on the U.S. and what that endeavor cost us--and the patricians...