Word: layabout
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...that it is only glancingly a portrait of her younger half brother Devon Drew, who died of AIDS two years ago in Antigua. Its real subject is Kincaid's scalded psyche: how she felt about Devon's life (contemptuous at its waste--he was a charming, irresponsible, sexually profligate layabout); about his death (torn but loyal--she bought AZT in the U.S., and the drug gave him a remission); and about Antigua (bitter). The underlying, overflowing theme, as always, is anger...
...admission, Mark Renton, the enunciator of this caustic credo, is "a bad person." Heroin addict and layabout in the lower depths of Edinburgh, Renton steals from stores, locked cars, old-age pensioners' homes, his own mother's purse--all to support his "sincere and truthful junk habit." He blithely betrays his friends; his schemes help send two mates to jail and another into an early grave. When a baby in his shooting gallery suddenly dies, Renton's only impulse is to shoot up. He also smokes, talks dirty and blasts a dog's butt with BB-gun pellets...
...period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have unlimited time for gab and games of Pictionary. Pig Sty, which made its debut in January on the new UPN network, revolves around five mismatched roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City apartment--a task that is especially hard since they all seem to be home all the time. The title character in ABC's Ellen runs a bookstore-coffee bar, but it must be the least demanding...
...Zone"; but the description promises both too much and too little. In one of the three half-hour episodes (which are running throughout the month), the statue of a saint comes to life, forcing a barrio priest to grapple with issues of religion and faith. In another, a ghetto layabout and his abused girlfriend are visited by a mysterious messenger who delivers a rifle along with a note telling them to "wait for instructions." Despite the supernatural overtones, the stories are too dramatically murky to have passed muster on Rod Serling's old series...
...together: he flirts with everyone and commits himself to no one; he's had more professions than most people have hot breakfasts, and claims to be an expert on everything when he actually knows little of anything. But Lindseth depicts a Gerry whose guileless, good-for-nothing layabout image conceals a calculating cold-heartedness...