Only 18 months ago, this political rapscallion of old hijacked the top job in Germany's Social Democratic opposition and then quietly lifted it off the political floor.
Fifteen years ago, the movie's class-war theme -- the swells in their tuxedoes lounging amid the Titanic's creamy classical splendor, versus the lugs in steerage, led by Leonardo DiCaprio's penniless rapscallion bohemian Jack -- seemed a fairly standard old-movie trope.