Robert De Niro

A couple of days ago I viewed on TV Robert De Niro’s latest film, The Comedian, which came out last year. From first to last it is a celebration of his character’s angry, viciously foul-mouthed rants and aberrant episodic behavior that gets him in one devastating self-destructive encounter after another. Along the way he meets a similar young woman and they proceed with a bizarre “relationship” based on their mutual sociopathic personalities. From his public demeanor over the past several years, this must be the true persona of the great but tragically flawed actor. I believe that one could multiply his similar dysfunctional public outrages across the entertainment/media spectrum from Hollywood progressives to East Coast misanthropic boors and pompous elites.

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