OPINION

Life imitates farce as Chuvit steals the show

News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/07/2012

» No one, not even Tom Cruise, exploits the media as shrewdly as Chuvit Kamolvisit. Moustache twitching, his neck veins throbbing as he went on TV to relate the stormy episode when he exposed a gambling den on Phetchaburi Road, which entailed callow pushing-and-shoving as photographers snapped and cameramen videoed it all. He led the reporters into the soi and phoned the police. When they were late in arriving, he grumbled, then sat down on a folded chair (how did that materialise?) sipping iced coffee as onlookers, journalists, children and toughs formed a circle around him.