Margaret's plaintive pining over her absent cat naturally recalls William Inge's kitchen-sink classic "Come Back, Little Sheba".
This year's gathering naturally recalls the show of 1933, which also took place in a severe downturn — and amid anticipation of the inauguration of a new president promising big changes.
Deen's involvement naturally recalls the LA-set Rebel Without a Cause, another film about young people seemingly trapped in a pattern of unnecessary cruelty, while Schrader appears to be returning to the world of hard-hearted, sun-drenched, west coast cynicism he depicted in the 1980 film American Gigolo.
Other gifted individuals include super-tasters, who have an intense perception of flavour and super memorisers who naturally recall events from almost every day of their lives.
"Their first reaction was satisfaction, naturally," he recalled in police interviews, "although they told me... to avoid such positions, because I could just as easily have lost".
These were some of the questions Abby Sher found herself asking, often in a frenzy of tears, after the blissful first week of her daughter's life ended and the reality of Week 2 set in. "Especially in Brooklyn, it's like, 'This is going to be another challenge that I do all naturally!' " she recalled thinking.
"The first piece I picked was naturally split," he recalled.
Music came naturally to Mr. Timberlake, who recalled hearing songs on the radio as a kid, "picking up a guitar and figuring them out".
"What I liked about economics in school was the probabilities and econometrics and regressions, which all come very naturally to me," she recalled.
Being naturally parasitic, I recall depending on the stamina of a friend who, when we were both about 15, bravely decided to camp outside the Shakespeare Memorial theatre in Stratford-on-Avon for first-night tickets to Peter Brook's Titus Andronicus.
