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Ripley Recap: When in Rome
Watching Tom grift and murder is like watching an artist at work.
Every day in Dickie Greenleaf’s life is like a pleasantly productive Sunday when you do the shopping, go to the post office, bring a picture to get framed, and stop at a café to have an espresso in between tasks. In his ability to impersonate Dickie’s tone while also creating new fake information, he resembles another famous epistolary grifter: the author Lee Israel, who forged hundreds of letters assuming the identity of celebrities like Dorothy Parker and Katharine Hepburn (in Marielle Heller’s excellent film about her story, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, she is played by a pitch-perfect Melissa McCarthy). Sitting in front of the typewriter and torturing Marge from a distance — it’s so much crueler to pretend that Dickie is thinking of her than to let him disappear into thin air — Tom is not just working, but channeling his purpose.
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