"The neglect that dare not speak its name."
That's what I thought was one of the worst parts of the UK phone hacking scandal — not just that they'd steal personal information, but they'd do it in such a way that would trash people's relationships, because it'd be like proof that trusted friends and family were selling them out.
Emma Thompson may have forgiven HBC, but my mom hasn't come anywhere close to forgiving Kenneth Branagh. That's what happens when you get a little too invested in celebrity couples — I can remember more than one People magazine being thrown across the room when the news broke.
I was trying to be a good uncle a while ago, and my nephew and I reenacted the scene to his great amusement. After we were all done with the laughter, he's like "Your teeth are yellow." WELL FUCK YOU, KID.
He should have a line of toadies competing for the honor of taking the fall for him. Makes me wonder if this is a genuine breakdown here.
I think he would have been fine with a small "oops" and making some junior aide fall on his sword. This whole scandal is a series of self-inflicted wounds.
At this point, I'm entertaining the possibility that the whole thing was staged, and he was only pretending to sleep. To what end, I don't know, but it sounds like the kind of dumb idea he'd come up with.