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Bong’s shrewd portrait of a wannabe dictator is even more chilling when you consider that Kenneth’s violent narcissism is relevant regardless of whether or not Trump is in office.

In the first, Hackman’s local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett, already cemented in our brains as vicious, reveals himself to be a shrewd mocker of the written word as well.

“Spartacus” screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, blacklisted during the Red Scare, may have identified with the shrewd Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt against the crushing overlords of the Roman Republic.

It was a shrewd way for Lamar to comment on the dissonance of being a Black artist performing directly in the gaze of someone like Trump.

Russell mixed his game-breaking moments with shrewd game management on that occasion, even if he could not avert a 19-16 defeat that sent the series south.