Knott

"Bob Dylan once commented that perhaps all he had done was nothing more than an instance of gallantry, but he was quick to add, “that’s no small thing.” Indeed, a lingering gallantry is the quality Doug strived for as a poet and actor, and if he brought a jaunty cabaret confidence to his title role as court jester to the fantasy of family genealogy, it was only in service to that virtue, which can’t redeem the unavoidable losses in life, but which gives them a poignancy worthy of their invocation."