Edwards Preached

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    Bill: I think maybe you have to come up with excuses just to avoid the moment of truth.
    Lili: What?
    Bill: In a word, Miss Smith, I think it’s just possible you’re a virgin.
    —Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

    In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.
    New Yorker (April 23, 1990)