Word: weirdness
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...basically for six-year-olds,” she laments in More, Now, Again when her denial begins to fade. “I could not imagine walking into an N.A. meeting and talking about addiction to Ritalin. Everyone would laugh! It’s just too weird and smarmy, too pathetic. So uncool...
Television, being an expensive mass-market medium, is inherently conservative. And as in any conservative business, executives try to copy past successes. That's why you got so many sitcoms about aimless twenty-somethings who drink suspicious amounts of coffee. But something weird happens when the distinguishing characteristic of the successes - currently HBO's lineup of The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under and Curb Your Enthusiasm - is that they break the mold. What you get is a lot of shows copying not-copying: The Bernie Mac Show, 24, Malcolm in the Middle, Undeclared. You get Innovative...
...something most people are anxious to ponder in public, partly because no one wants to sound insensitive, but also because there's a weird sense of survivors' guilt among those of us who didn't lose anyone on that horrible day. We can't imagine the agony of the bereaved, the logic goes, and so we shouldn't argue with the compensation...
...favor with the crown. It also places her in some amusingly bad company--a sexually voracious Cardinal (Jonathan Pryce), a courtier who is too clever by half (Simon Baker), a fake noble husband (Adrien Brody) and the mystic mountebank Cagliostro (Christopher Walken, who is, as always, deliciously weird). You may not be able to follow the overall arc of their scheming, but scene by scene they are a delightful crew, hissing away behind their cloaks and fans...
...practically achieved cult status. However, both are also quick to avoid describing their work as quirky. Anderson elucidates, “I don’t like quirky at all. Quirky is the thing I want to not be. There’s no point in trying to be weird. But I think people think this [movie] stuff is quirky. [Owen and I] are trying to make it as original as can be and we try to make things exciting and throw a few surprises in. All I’m trying to do is make it good...