Yet his gleeful narrative style makes clear where his sympathies lie.
Broadcaster Danny Baker called him "a chum, a funny man who twinkled … [and a] proper old rascal …" Winner's gleeful film-making style won him fans among today's generation of directors, too.
The release comes four tracks long, and exemplifies the LA producer's usual disregard for genre conventions by working with 8-bit styles, gleeful rave exuberance, and synth pop motifs at various points.
The incisiveness of her legal points won her admirers among members of the profession, including Robert Bork (who was once quoted as saying, "In my opinion, there can't be too many Sarah Caudwell novels"), while the gleeful savagery of her satiric style made her a darling of the critics.
"The Passion," I think, is junk, but at least it's not trivial, cynical junk in the usual style of postmodernist pop — the gleeful rooting around in the scrap heap of discarded illusion, Kill Bill-ism for nonbelievers.
It would be fairly easy to dismiss the gleeful boast by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France that American-style capitalism is over, to file it with French critiques of fast food and American pop culture.
Or an even more gleeful line that perfectly captures both the family dynamics and the clever style of the season.
The scene's crate-digging, nostalgic sensibility restored a sense of innocence, wonder and gleeful optimism to dance music, and Eden's rites of passage-style narrative seems like the perfect vehicle for capturing all that.
He entered her orbit, enjoyed her gleeful attention and became the best perpetrator of her wildly imaginative, triumphantly ad hominem style.
Another viewer took "How Do You Spank a Giant Baby?" and other silly tunes Frank sang in his videos throughout the year and arranged them in the style of Bach as "Zechorales". Frank studied these activities in the same way a gleeful scientist inspects a petri dish teeming with fascinating life forms.
On a sweet sounding funk number by Corbett, he carves up the keyboard with gleeful abandon, reacting to drummer Neil Bullock's riot of Latin flavoured rhythms with a display of Ruben Gonzales-style riffing.
