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Looking Alert

Excellent exchange in Hilary de Vries' NYT Magazine interview-plug for Robert Downey Jr's first album, "The Futurist".

HdV: Do you think Hollywood regards you as a liability or as a survivor?

RD: The truth is, most people have realized I'm less a liability on a set than people who get loaded on weekends and might get a D.U.I. and don't want to hear anything about getting sober.

I'm a pretty easy read. I'm either doing well or I'm having a sidebar conversation with the valet at your party and we disappear and come back 45 minutes later looking very alert.

I just like the succinctness of that "looking very alert".