Excerpts from my Journals

[Dated December 2001.]

Phil Green:

For Christ's sakes, Henry, don't you understand? It's people like us, people in the middle that made this country work. And an...when people like ourselves get into this...this kind of thing, it takes it all down. That's what's ripping our country apart.

Harry Stoner:

You son of a bitch! Don't you sell America to me. I've got friends over there sitting under the sand with bikinis on their heads...I used to get goosebumps every time I look at that flag. Don't sell me America!

From Save the Tiger, a 1973 film for which Jack Lemmon won an Oscar playing Harry Stoner, a staid businessman whose personal and professional misconduct over the course of two days is supposed to reflect the societal disorder unleashed by the 1960s.

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