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A posthumous profile of Dodi Fayed says he was childish, profligate, unreliable, paranoid, and drug-using.
Much of this kind of behavior can be traced back to what Richard Hofstadter famously described as the "paranoid style" of the American Right.
A piece argues that black Americans espouse paranoid myths (that the CIA sells crack in the inner cities, for example) because it's easier for them to believe that white America is trying to destroy them than to believe that white America doesn't care about them.
Perhaps what only the paranoid do is thrive.
Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.