Went to see All the Kings Men tonight. Never had read the award winning novel or seen the 1949 film. Very interesting, intriguing & also disturbing. Stark starts out as such a great guy - a man for the people - a populist running for governor of Louisiana and by the end he's a self serving cheater with too many enemies to survive.
I came home thinking how much it fit in with Shnitzle's blog (Overspray) yesterday about power and corruption and deceit and such. Regarding an incident he witnessed, he wrote, "lesson learned, don't be a kook. amazing how many people, especially people in power today are like that asshole, self absorbed, self serving, lying, idiots. and that line isn't too far from the rest of us: so let us live differently, flee temptation and live honorably. death to kooks.
I'll toast to that!
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