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"Scotland has one peccadillo and that is Cardinal O'Brien," he says.

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Carvey laid into the appearance of the pseudo-Gaetz, telling him it "looks like your forehead is trying to go to heaven without you" before criticizing his "little sexual peccadilloes."

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He obviously wants the world to remember and think of him as strong and resolute, and basically a good guy despite his personal peccadilloes.

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“Those are personal peccadilloes that you may have,” Scorsese incorrectly guesses.

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But it’s also a clever riff on the family sitcom, as the establishment’s proprietor is the patriarch of a decidedly oddball family; most surprisingly, it treats that family with genuine affection, peccadilloes and all.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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