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The patriarch protects, is good, powerful, wise.
Ten interpreters stepped from behind the throne.The English one at last explained the Holy FatherHad urged us all to wear seatbelts while driving.My heart sank at its plain good sense, as hymnsEchoed and golden canopies enfolded the pope,How like home it seemed, with my own fatherA preoccupied patriarch of practicalityWhen what was wanted veered wildly betweenThe gruff headmaster and the drunken playwright.Instead, I got the distant advertising salesman,The suburban dad of what turned out to be my dreams ...
They are as deep and as urgent as the question Celebration's patriarch and muse, Walt Disney, expressed in a memo before his death: Is democracy the best way to run a town?
Schmidt quotes from King Lear , and Begley intends a soft echo of that play in his tale of an aged patriarch quarreling with a daughter.
The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.