Word: digression
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...manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
...defining scenes of cinema is in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, when a middle-aged Winters begins rabidly beating James Mason, her vacant, utterly expressionless face unambiguously channeling her fiery rage upon learning of her husband’s affair with her daughter. But I digress...
...somehow, by a narrow margin, the film doesn't quite make it. Potter recolored his work a little more sunnily, and it is, perhaps, too compressed; it needs TV's room to digress. And the director, Keith Gordon, doesn't really recapture '50s Los Angeles, where Potter reset his flashbacks. They feel perfunctory (and underbudgeted). Finally, Robert Downey Jr., who works hard as Dark, just doesn't have the weight, age and rage Michael Gambon brought to the role...
...such as the August 29th announcement that the Federal Energy Commission had reached a settlement of just over $1 million with California energy companies. This was a great deal for the corporations, which had ripped Californians off by $8.9 billion, according to the California Independent System Operator. But I digress...
...digress. And meanwhile, the gift certificate remains, collecting dust. This whole situation reminds me of the scene in Reality Bites when the disillusioned Troy quips, “I ride my own melt.” Whatever that means, I think it sums up where I am. The days are numbered, optimism is waning, the daydreams fade. Strength and honor, I tell myself, but to be honest, I don’t think that there’s much hope for this thing riding out as expected, no coup de grace. And that?...