The wish to expose him or to discredit his work -- to reveal him as scurrilous in his personal life and duplicitous in his professional life -- seems merely to confirm one of his more useful suggestions: that we get to know people better by thinking of them as secretive.
John Lithgow gives credit to Shakespeare and Milton Berle, whereas Susan Lucci, who has spent most of her life playing the duplicitous Erica Kane on "All My Children," found "The Donna Reed Show" important.
Three cheers, then, for Arbitrage (2012, Koch, 15), in which Gere is perfectly cast as a duplicitous businessman and unreliable husband and father whose life is teetering on the brink of collapse, both personal and financial.
We're actually quite self-deprecating and that plays into the hands of cynical people, of which I would count Jeremy Paxman, who have this caricature of politicians as a bunch of duplicitous so-and-sos on some big gravy train, living the life of Riley.
He then goes on to reveal the often duplicitous and cynical nature of different elements of prison life.
Even though her life is a lie, she seems less duplicitous than anyone around her, and she wins the love of an alcoholic factory worker (Nadia Uhl) and then a young physics student (Alexander Beyer) as well as a certificate for "exemplary socialist labor".
Also bad dye jobs, good protein drinks, designer air fresheners ("banana, vanilla, pine, coconut"), duplicitous studio executives, Southern California weather weenies ("Joey, this is life-threateningly frigid. It's got to be forty degrees out here. Come up to the penthouse").
In my own life, my husband's CFO turned out to be a diabolical, duplicitous lying thief who illegally stole our life savings as well as the livelihoods of over 100 people.
