Cash is becoming a tragic parody of himself, reduced to spotting conspiracies in every area of his life.
As the 90s progressed, however, there was a distinct feeling that much of gay theatre was becoming miserablist – tragic stories of unhappy individuals.
"I could've been paralyzed, or dead," Jimenez said, knowing that only centimeters kept him from becoming another tragic twist of Yankee fate.
In this case there was an orchestrated campaign by the Sun (under Rebekah Brooks) to target the social workers and locum doctor involved in the case, all quickly themselves becoming the tragic victims of a contemporary witch-hunt.
Two years later, in his first significant film, Lang's You Only Live Once (1937), his role as a decent man becoming a tragic victim of society foreshadowed his protagonists in Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Litvak's The Long Night (1947) and Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956).
The hero of the Beat Generation was now at the heart of the hippy movement—single-handedly connecting two revolutionary generations but by 1964 he was fast becoming a tragic, drug-addled figure, and something of a parody of himself.
MEH: But as farming also sucks this area dry of water and soil fertility, it will dry the climate further: this overpopulated country is headed towards becoming another tragic Sudan.
However, as his fame grew Jackson's life began to unravel, becoming its own tragic performance.
By you emotionally withdrawing and becoming 'robotic' at this tragic time, your son may well have felt scared and alone, feeling that he had lost both his parents," says Hiller.
He gracefully inhabits the role, becoming both sympathetic and tragic.
