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In this otherwise totally predictable thumbsucking New York Times profile of Zachary Quinto, which features the Star Trek/Heroes star going to great lengths to explain that while Hollywood pays the rent, his superior heart is in the theatre, dahling, the reporter gets off his own bit of silliness:

Mr. Quinto pierces the sympathetic core of a character tormented by his own failings and by the existential agonies of living in Ronald Reagan’s America.

Two thoughts: 1) It's amazing that serious people still deny liberal bias in the press when it is so blithely and openly inserted into even non-political arts features. I mean, seriously, "existential agonies"? 2) I love and frequently attend live theatre and yet still manage to recognize it's a matter of taste, not an opportunity for pseudo-intellectual self-fluffing. Congrats on the Kushner gig, Spock, but to be such pompous ass about it is...highly illogical.

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Jack Bauer| 10.25.10 @ 5:09PM

Pointy head Quinto was born in June 1977. Thus making him just over 2 years old when Reagan beat that epic failure Carter in Nov 1979.

Remind me what INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT and the GENERAL WELL BRING of the country was...

Between Mr Quito barely having control over his own bowels as mommy potty trained him -- and 1988, aged 11 when he barely had control over his brain?

Beam him up Scotty.

DRed| 10.25.10 @ 7:03PM

Did the actor actually say anything about Reagan in that piece? I just read the article and I didn't see it. This is much ado about nothing.

Shawn Macomber| 10.25.10 @ 8:55PM

DRed, I thought it was obvious the absurd Reagan quote above was from the author of the NYTimes piece--"Mr. Quinto"--but I've edited the bit to make it more clear.

DRed| 10.25.10 @ 9:51PM

I think Mr. Quinto is the actor.

Shawn Macomber| 10.26.10 @ 7:47AM

Right, the quote I highlighted began with "Mr. Quinto"--thus, not a quote from the actor, but the NYTimes author. 'Fraid I can't make this any simpler.

Andrew B| 10.26.10 @ 8:04AM

Thank goodness Mr. Quinto has finally had the courage to remind us of those dark, forgotten years: the breadlines, the shanty cities springing up, the armies of vagrant, unemployed air traffic controllers riding the rails of the totally defunded Amtrak. Oh, how I recall it all! The starvation, the misery, the terror, and all of it beneath a ghastly pall of smoke from burning witches, heretics and welfare mothers! Nothing to eat but ketchup, and even that taken from us by the rich swells in their top hats, monocles and spats to put onto their Kobe beef hamburgers!

Existential indeed.