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For the Four Seasons, “The White Lotus” has been an undeniably powerful marketing tool — despite the death and dissolute behavior that goes on at the resorts in the series.

“People wanted to move up to guitar. I don’t know why. I guess Johnny Thunders was cooler,” he adds of the famously dissolute New York Dolls member.

De Bascher was the opposite, a dandy who enjoyed dissolute idleness with an elegant insouciance.

This is a grim continuum on which to exist, skating between the poles of high-achieving hustler and dissolute layabout.

And indeed it is: It’s an old episode of a Maury Povich-style daytime talk show, where younger, much more dissolute incarnations of the characters battle over the results of a paternity test.