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They'd know him as the dotty character actor from mass-appeal films like The Princess Bride and Clueless --a guy who, unlike the earnest playwright Shawn, appears to have stopped taking anything in life seriously, least of all himself.
His words on Mr. Shawn sound suspiciously like those of Mr. Pooter on his boss Mr. Perkupp in The Diary of a Nobody . Compare.
Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.
The other side, in this case, is a fancy Connecticut prep school, where "Dunph" (Shawn Hatosy) gets sent when he rear-ends a police cruiser after an evening with his buddies and their bong.
To say that Shawn was "a man who grieved over all living creatures" is forgivable hyperbole; but later to add that he "mourned" for Si Newhouse when Newhouse unceremoniously fired him in 1987 (a couple of years after buying the magazine)--well, that's a bit much.