My Two Oscars: on Melancholy and Wit
ROSALIND: They say you are a melancholy fellow. JAQUES: I am so; I do love it better than laughing. —As You Like ItUnderneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character —Oscar Levant, An American in Paris Oscar Levant is a melancholy figure, full of barbed wit, self-loathing, and Rhapsody in Blue, which he …