He lingers on a snapshot of Ellen, drink-flushed and grinning, her arm around a bemused-looking Gus Van Sant.
When they were registering their son for youth soccer, Feder recalls, "A woman looked at Gus, then looked at me and Don, then looked at Gus, then looked at me and Don — you could tell she was doing the math".
His sister, Leslie, who seems to have absorbed the fallout from their dysfunctional parents' marriage and now craves a sense of rootedness in her life, looked upon Gus, who was 14 years younger, as something of a surrogate son, taking the place of the child she and her husband, Pierce, never had.
The last episode was so good that no one really cared how shitty it looked when Gus was standing there all blown up like the Terminator before fixing his tie and falling dead.
When Toula renovates herself and attracts Ian (Mr. Corbett), a long-haired, Anglo-looking English teacher, Gus looks on in shock and consternation.
GOT MILK? -- I'm looking forward to giving Gus Van Sant's solidly conventional, well-acted drama about Harvey Milk ($29.98; Universal) another chance.
Gus looks back at the police car chasing them.
"Look at me," Gus declaimed as my friend and I wound down our conversation.
In light of his acclaimed Elephant, it's interesting to look back at Gus Van Sant searching for new possibilities in this non-acclaimed predecessor.
With his neatly combed black hair, a long-sleeve shirt with flames shooting down the arms, and fingerless black gloves imprinted with an X-ray image of hand bones, Gus looked almost conservative.
An initial public offering is a possible solution as GUS looks to break off the data part of its business from its remaining UK retail stores.
