In the case of geniuses such as Chaplin, Welles, or Cassavetes, the results are off the charts in the realm of epochal artistry; in the case of others, characteristics channelled by other directors into extravagant characters become personality-spews, warts and all.
In the case of the Genius, it's the fact that there's no internal microphone.
In the case of Child Genius, which starts tonight on Channel 4, the reason is that you really wouldn't want kids (especially any of your own) watching this, just in case those who argue that TV causes imitative behaviour are right.
The difference between minds that are tape loops and creative minds (in the case of Schumann, creative genius) does not seem to have interested any experimenters involved in this phenomenon.
All four capacities just mentioned are creative capacities, modes of inventiveness inventive construction in the case of wit and genius, inventive construal in the case of humor and taste.
It was a case of "a work of genius" justifying the prostitution of a talent.
But in the case of the creative geniuses who transmute the dross of their day-to-day experience into the gold of enduring art, it is vital that posterity should have the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
There have been a couple of cases of investment geniuses who were using the IRA rollover rules to essentially take a bridge loan from their IRAs, who got hammered when they missed the deadline by a couple of days.
"Brodsky was a completely different case: a genius of a different order.
It wasn't a case of one man's genius, more the accomplishment of a team, one man's skills complementing another's.
