Here, he explores the scorching devotion between a hugely fat father and his mentally handicapped son, Eeyore (Oe's own son is nicknamed Pooh).
This bond, this devotion, between choreographer and dancer, seemed inviolable.
Enter aspiring American writer Edith, wonderfully played by Mia Wasikowska as a kind of flickering human candelabra amid the film's necessarily purple excesses: the possibly doomed declarations of devotion between lovers, the bloodied ectoplasm trailed by the mansion's phantoms, the tightly wound veins popping against the deathly complexion of Chastain's deliciously kinked-out Mrs Danvers figure.
The contrast between the devotion to life and justice expressed by the Group of 8 leaders at Gleneagles, Scotland, and the disgrace of the terrorists will be stark.
Wilker's achievement reminds me of my own experience with baseball cards (which I, too, collected with fanatical devotion between the ages of eight and twelve), and, in general, of what constitutes aesthetic experience for a child.
His many decades of support for our Division, the 68 years of mutual devotion between him and his wife, Yetta, and his boundless affection for their three children, their son- and daughters-in-law, and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren remain a timeless example and inspiration to us all.
Now, it's one thing for a dying person to take comfort in the allegiance and the devotion of family or friends, but it's another thing when allegiance and devotion flow between strangers separated by millennia.
The devotion is entirely deserved.
