But in the past weeks he has attracted more attention for his off-screen remarks.
"I remember the Apple folk coming to speak to me about 18 months ago to discuss sapphire screens," remarked Alford.
"There is a huge difference in quality once you start moving through the different sets of screens," remarked Ranjit Atwal, research director at the tech consultancy Gartner.
As highlights of their professional matches played on a video screen, Agassi remarked that he could appreciate those days better now.
(At one point, the stylist for the shoot, June Ambrose, walked by. Glancing at Missy's image on the flickering screen, she remarked, "She has lost her mind, and that's a good thing").
After dinner, sitting on that same ancient sofa with Garech, I noticed a pair of bronzed hands in front of the fire screen and remarked on them.
After the screening Rao remarked that the film has "no resolution, life goes on," and indeed it does for the millions who live in Mumbai.
The screen includes threatening remarks from Al Qaeda leaders, including one from Mr. Bin Laden after Sept. 11, 2001: "What is yet to come will be even greater".
Attempts at small talk or queries about their mental well-being may at first be met with an irritated stare, a gesture toward the flat screen and insensitive remarks like "Do you mind?" or "The game's about to start, O.K.?" This is the disorder talking, not the person.
"You know, there's really nothing like an exciting film on a big screen," Guillermin once remarked.
But it quickened the pace and coarsened the atmosphere, as Senate aides began monitoring TV screens for untoward remarks about their bosses.
