He also fears a past misdemeanour might be playing a part.
Unable to find a picture-book for his son, Hoffmann wrote and illustrated a clutch of cautionary tales, in which childish misdemeanours - playing with matches, fidgeting at mealtimes - were horribly punished: a little boy who sucks his thumbs has them cut off by the scissor man.
Here, in what is Allen in Crimes and Misdemeanours mode, she plays Rita, an unhappily married science teacher who throws herself at Abe Lucas Joaquinn Phoenix), the university's newest addition – a maudlin philosophy professor with a reputation for drinking and womanising.
But, as Bruce Springsteen has just discovered, doing it with another man's wife is the sort of misdemeanour that can play havoc with your reputation as the wholesome champion of blue-collar America.
The film's nastiest scene has him doing just this because a student is playing out of tune: a misdemeanour punished in the most appalling and arbitrary way.
However, the former Rangers chairman said that what Rangers did could not be compared to "bribery and corruption involving players and referees, fielding players that did not meet the criteria and qualifications of the governing bodies, or they were playing while they had been banned for previous misdemeanours".
Key's twisted poetry is particularly suited to the Horne Section set up, with sensitive playing adding extra colour to his tales of emotional repression, surreal misdemeanours and desperate attempts to fit in.
The film earned him an Oscar nomination and paved the way for what may be his greatest screen performance: playing dithering Judah Rosenthal, the good man gone bad in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanours.
Having had his funding stopped by the Lawn Tennis Association last year for the second time following off-the-court misdemeanours, Evans was struggling to finance any overseas travel and did not play outside Britain or Ireland for more than 12 months.
Public votes rather than a little-known committee, might also play a greater role in deciding who should be stripped of an honour as punishment for proven misdemeanour, something our existing system has been slow to do.
Like Bilko, Ted, played by the late Dermot Morgan, is constantly on the make, exiled to Craggy Island due to an unexplained financial misdemeanour and unable to leave until, says Bishop Brennan, "every penny of that money is accounted for".
