Mike Medavoy

Yeah, because he's advising his fictitious nephew who wants to, you know, go take a summer, you know, doing, you know, lobstering and then write the great American novel.

And he gives this, you know, dripping with, you know, irony advice like, you know, this is what we literally borrow parts of it for the scene with Mike Medavoy, the Hollywood executive.

That takes a lot.

He's like, you want to, you know, want to write, you know, write prospectuses, right? Don't write the novel or the screenplay, you know, write quarterly reports, you know, or whatever.

Our wish to preserve the illusion of a classless society lends itself to the telling of a story, a story about two young men who don't know whether they want to rule the world or save it.

I've placed both of them in a graduating class at Yale College and thus in a position to win all the prizes in the great American amusement park.

I've given them the names Jack Bellamy and Mike Vanzetti.

Two characters of my own invention.