As anyone who speaks American knows, there is only one King. If that King were to have given public speeches in addition to musical performances, historians pretty much agree that he would have quoted the text of his favorite advertisement that remains framed and hanging in his castle of kitsch called Graceland. (Oh, and Buckingham Palace is sophisticated?)
That ad is called The Penalty Of Leadership and it was written by a future advertising owner named Theodore McManus in 1915. Perhaps if the English monarchy were not so biased against the Irish, which as everyone also knows, are the greatest writers in English (i.e. McManus, Joyce), George coulda’ cut his early teeth on better prose and rocked it early on.
Although we would have really missed the movie. And James Franco would have taken the Oscar.
