PEOPLE WHO NEVER WILL BE MISSED: Last night I watched “The Last Supper” with the Old Oligarch (who fixed my DVD player–THANK YOU!!!!) and Zorak. It was hilarious. Basically, a bunch of lefty grad students have a tradition of inviting a newcomer over every Sunday for dinner and discussion. One night, due to a brokedown Mercedes (or Porsche? I forget), one of their number has to hitch a ride with a trucker, so he becomes the night’s guest. He turns out to be… not the dinner companion they would have chosen (“Hitler had the right idea”). He harangues them for never acting on their beliefs–for being pushover wussy liberals. And he ends up dead.

And they get an idea.

They start knocking off all kinds of illiberal folk. The idea is, they’ll spend dinner trying to convert the right-wing freak; if discussion fails, however, arsenic convinces just fine.

It just spirals from there. A more American, timebound, political-junkie version of The Secret History (also dumber, and funnier). I think this would be best with a gang of right-wing college types and a decent amount of alcohol. It’s overacted in a way that detracts from the fun, but really, I was kept in stitches and in suspense more or less throughout. The ending is just perfect.