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The 90-minute program included segments such as Kaufman chatting with his idol, Howdy Doody, and renditions of songs such as "It's a Small World."
More enlivening by far is Love and Death on Long Island , in which another aging protagonist (John Hurt), a clubby English novelist poignantly out of touch with modern society, goes on another soulful quest, developing an obsession with a beautiful teen idol (Jason Priestley) whom he accidentally sees on-screen in a film called Hot Pants College 2 . First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.
Theories: 1) Leonardo DiCaprio is a teen idol for the ages.
Sinatra rose and fell as a teen idol in the '40s, then returned to stardom in the early '50s.
This reassurance--that somehow things will be all right, that there is a lot of ruin in a man, as well as in a nation, to paraphrase his idol, Adam Smith--has become part of me, and I can still summon it up when I am terrified because of a huge quarterly tax payment due or a bad day on the market.