The trippiest tangents ascend into fully realized psychedelia, taking us out of the action and into the “life of the mind,” as the “Barton Fink” script immortally described it.

Enclosing one broad thigh with his masterful black line, the Austrian prodigy transformed rough brown paper into immortally creamy flesh.

But seeing Minnelli, physically weakened yet immortally bright-eyed, stirred something in me that I am not used to feeling while watching these idolatrous shows.

When Mr. Godly finally rediscovers Maia, naked, glorious, immortally beautiful, she grants him a single kiss.

Still, I’m grateful for any décor that occasions the following, immortally Williams exchange: “Where’s my tiger lily?”