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Noting on the Scarlet Letter

There is a disease that tends to affect second-rate actors who achieve sudden and monumental fame, particularly if that fame lasts longer than the aphorisitically-alloted fifteen minutes. After obtaining the fabulous salaries and right-of-first-or-at-least-second-script-refusal characteristic of being on Hollywood's "A" list, these actors don't know enough to take the money and run. Instead, their disease reaches the terminal phase, one in which they begin to believe their own press clippings. Suddenly, the money and the power just aren't enough; they want R-E-S-P-E-C-T, to coin a phrase. These actors become convinced that "culture" with a capital "C" is the missing link in their careers. So they find themselves a literary "classic" and attempt to put their acting imprimatur upon it, envisioning themselves as the next John Barrymore. Unfortunately, the...

Posted by: Joel Chibota

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