Excellent. And so true.
We live in an age of affectation, pretense, phoniness and contrivance.
I think you are 180 degrees out here. No matter how he was presented or understood to be by others, Chauncey Gardiner himself was the antitheses of "affectation, pretense, phoniness and contrivance". That's what made the movie.
However, those words describe Angelou and her lefty friends very well.
Yes, I know about Chauncy being unaffected, but what I wasn’t perhaps clear about was that I consider Ms. Angelou and her general acceptance and accolades by the so called general public to be the epitome of the “age of affectation, pretense, phoniness and contrivance.”
Sorry for my poor writing and lack of clarity.