"I was precocious," Mr. Weil says in the film.
I was precocious, optimistic, passionate, priggish - and determined to be a Famous Writer.
"I was precocious in terms of language, but very backward socially.
"I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well," he told the magazine The Progressive in 1997.
My first thrill arrived before Williams's score even began: I was precocious enough to recognize the 20th Century Fox Fanfare by Alfred Newman David Newmanan's father — but my ears tingled, and my heart leaped, when I heard it continue in the full, 1954 extended version.
I chuckled, she is precocious, a 40-year-old trapped in a 7-year-old's body.
"I went to drama school, the Brit School, which explains why I'm so precocious and annoying," she says.
Gil's interest in music was precocious: "When I was only two or two and a half," he recalled, "I told my mother I was going to become a musician or a president of my country".
That's just the grunge generation being precocious, thought I.
