A film reference

How many people know a cultural reference when they see one? How many just skip over it, if they do not recognize it?

Here’s an excerpt from an article in the NYT today about former Sen. John Edwards:

“For instance, after Mr. Young finagled a way to explain Ms. Hunter’s presence in Mr. Edwards’s hotel room in Florida and get her out of there unnoticed, he says, Mr. Edwards just looked at him blankly and said: “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Rielle wasn’t in Florida.” What was this: “Gaslight”? A trip to the Twilight Zone? An exercise in lawyerly deniability, to which Mr. Edwards apparently often resorted? A conversation being secretly recorded? Or something even scarier?”

Catch the “Gaslight” reference? Good for you if you did.

Go ahead, if you need to, look it up on Wikipedia.org or IMDB.com. Have fun. Sorry if you didn’t ‘get it.’   Ever heard of “Closing of the American Mind?” Good reading. Many thanks to Allan Bloom.

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