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Dope1: Actually, he/she is doing a bang up job of impersonating Alexandra Forrest.
Although I have never seen "Fatal Attraction," I did see parts of "The Natural" a few nights ago and thought Glenn Close was charming as Iris, standing all aglow in that shimmering white dress as a beacon of hope for Roy Hobbs.
I preferred the Malamud novel to the film of the same name but have always admired Malamud and enthusiastically recommend "The Stories of Bernard Malamud" which features many of the stories from his 1959 National Book Award for Fiction winning collection, "The Magic Barrel." He was awarded a second National Book Award for Fiction in 1967 for "The Fixer," which was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in that same year. Flannery O'Connor wrote of him: "I have discovered a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself." Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, and Anthony Burgess admired Malamud.
Briefly, though, back to what you claim is my "obsession" with Trump.
To put it bluntly, Trump is the most dangerous man to American freedom and democracy since WWII. He is a con man, a criminal, absent of any sense of morality, a vulgarian entirely without empathy or the slightest hint of interest in anyone or anything other than himself.
His stunning incompetence -- deliberately pitting states against one another to obtain basic supplies during the pandemic and pushing the absurd view that wearing a mask was a political statement against him rather than an attempt to keep people safe -- led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. And his conspiracy to use fraudulent electors to delay the electoral count and his subsequent incitement of an insurrection to remain in power after losing a free and fair election have weakened American ideals and irreparably harmed American institutions.
Trump is like dog sh!t on the sole of my shoe and I will continue to scrape away at it -- shine the healing power of sunlight on it every day if necessary -- until every last flake of his foulness is revealed, removed, long gone and completely forgotten.
