You know how Tweety is always trying to turn current events into a movie script?

[Skidmore]

How he is forever viewing life through the silver screen and assigning real-life people the roles of characters in his screenplay for the nation? Well, I want to assign him to a character. I was watching "Lady in the Water" for the first time this morning. I'm a Shyamalan fan but had not been able to see this movie before. What an amazing tale! Well, as the storyline unfolded, I recognized Tweety in the character of Farber, the critic, who thinks he has seen it all and can plot the world out because every event has been scripted. His jaded certainty leads him to draw flawed conclusions and put them forth as truth, which leads others astray when it comes saving the essential "Story." This fable worked on so many levels, but also presents me with an opportunity to plug the conventional wisdom media insider right where he'd like to be--in a script on a silver screen. When thought of in these terms, there was something satisfying on a metaphorical level when the Scrunt got Farber and the integrity of Story was preserved.

[SharonAnn]

1. And remember, Farber got eaten by the monster because his pre-conceived ideas.

[Ian David]

2. I think he's more like Wallace Shawn's character in The Princess Bride.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R #2 n/t

[ThomWV]

4. I see that clown as a guy constantly looking for some sliver of memory related to the subject

and the moment he can remember anything he ever did that was remotely similar to whatever is being discussed he shouts down everyone around him so he cam blabber some claptrap to put him in as the center of attention.

[peace frog]

5. Narcissistic Personality Disorder

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

1.has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2.is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3.believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4.requires excessive admiration
5.has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
6.is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7.lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8.is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
9.shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder