His new one, Renegade Platinum Mega Dance Attack Party: Don The PlatesI, combines the sad, pitiful lyricism of last year's My Love I Love with deft programming.
And he has grown used to hearing that "Zack and Miri" (opening Friday), about two pitiful roommates who fall in love while making a pornographic movie, could have come straight from Mr. Apatow's slacker oeuvre.
Being dumped is heartbreaking, but at least you don't have to spend days, weeks, or months mulling it over in advance worrying about what to say, how to say it, and how crushed and pitiful the person you once loved will look.
Part of the charm of Chelsea was that it was full of unexpected people, especially American actors and directors who had come to escape the pitiful contraction of the Hollywood they had once loved.
Old man Hearst's first paper and lifelong love, the San Francisco Examiner, is now a pitiful phantom, restricted to an afternoon publish (and thus a horrible circulation) by a binding agreement with the San Francisco Chronicle.
Listening to Redding belt out hits like "Mr. Pitiful," "Security," "Try a Little Tenderness," and "I've Been Loving You Too Long" — or watching him commanding the stage in Monterey, in 1967 — we see a preacher, and a smiling, imploring coach.
