He is a sharp listener, in part because of his legal training, in part because he is eternally curious, in part because he likes to save up the funny parts for later.
"Joan was eternally young, hysterically funny and unapologetically glamorous," Kotsiopoulos wrote.
He was as brave as any human-rights campaigner I've known, but he was also funny, ironic, eternally bemused even in the face of what he had endured and, more, his country's dark history and forbidding present.
With "Velvet Claws" the series moved to Warner's B-unit, and even an attempt to add some Nick-and-Nora sexual byplay by having Perry marry his long-suffering secretary, Della Street (the gorgeous, funny and eternally underutilized Claire Dodd), did nothing to hide an incoherent script.
As it was, he saw gallingly, the incident would be rolled into the Horst family annals, as a pivotal and eternally ramifying moment — the time Mommy (and, as she would become, Grammy) was stung by a bee, and funny foreign-born Grampa resourcefully saved her.
The American Dream in 2017 is the dream of viral sensation, of crafting a meme so great that it allows you to transcend your earthly body and become eternally adored in a sparkling world of ones and zeros at least until the next guy flicks salt in a funny way or whatever.
Always missing, eternally loving.
Eternally respectable, responsible, knowledgeable.
