indolence

I’ve spent the last 40-odd years trying to fight the good fight against the forces of indolence and greed to do the best with our stuff that you can do.

Nobody would’ve called it back when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was singing about the extremes of teenage indolence in Green Day’s first hit single, “Longview.”

His indolence and penchant for excess both fascinated and troubled Lagerfeld, a workaholic who did not drink or do drugs, and did not seem interested in sex, either.

As Lorraine, Leigh delivers her lines something like Mae West filtered through Bette Davis, with a bit of the catlike indolence of her Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph’s “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle”; but the effect here is of a person who knows she doesn’t need to move quickly or speak loudly to demonstrate power.

Such indolence will not be forgotten.