Dianavan, that would explain much about Marvin that is currently a mystery to me.

He presents himself as a happily married, middle-aged Jewish man, a very successful business man, a top-rank musician, a man who knows all of the tacky television shows and computer action games, who thinks what he says is funny when it is merely vulgar in the extreme, a man who just coincidentally is ultra conservative and ultra 'patriotic', a man who scoffs at anything from abroad, a man who 'loves' his country in general, Chicago in particular, and Chicago hot dogs without reservation.

Do you see where the picture starts going bad? "A happily married, middle-aged Jewish man, a very successful business man, a top-rank musician," is not the guy in the greater half of that paragraph.