Like I said in the Terence Stamp, Graham Greene, and Diane Keaton ones, I had too much grief over my mother to do any of these.
I can tackle them now.
I found Stoppard's politics icky. You have to be full-on fascist to be full-on disgusting.
He was just...icky.
He was a pro-capitalist, pro-Christian, bourgeois elitist diet-Republican style liberal.
I don't know or care what the political labels would be in the UK; I just know I'm as sick to death of these "establishment libs" as the fascists.
I piss on the Clintons; I don't see Clinton-ism as some golden age; I don't see "The West Wing" as their Camelot legend that I get fucking misty and weepy over; and I think James Carville needs to be put out on a fucking ice floe instead of being treated like Yoda by our liberal pundit class.
I've fucking had it with these fucking people.
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stoppard will always be the guy who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".
And Margaret and I got to share in that.
And he didn't groom and diddle any kids. Unlike Michael Jackson or Woody Allen.
So, I can grit my teeth for Tom Stoppard on this one case.
