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Word: brains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seduce Gardiner while he eats breakfast in bed, all of his attention focused on his TV and the irrepressible Mr. Rogers ("won't you be mine?"). Ashby had to tell a story about a man who, like his TV, captures attention wherever he goes yet has so small a brain that the narrative cannot unfold wholly from his perspective because he has no single perspective. In solving this problem of a non-entity at the movie's core, Ashby had the help of Peter Sellers' sublime performance as Gardiner...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Against Culture Shlock | 1/4/1980 | See Source »

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