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A Guide to Burning Your Bridges

Based on Toby Young's comic memoir of the same title, the crushingly unfunny and slopped-together “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People” has neither the ambition nor the intelligence to do justice to its source material.
In 1995, Mr. Young left his home in London for New York and a stint at Vanity Fair, where he flirted with the world of celebrity, “stretch limos and power restaurants,” before getting tossed out on his ear. A reverse snob (the son of an intellectual, he loves so-called popcorn movies), he managed the neat trick of dipping a toe in the celebrity industrial complex and leaving that world only to feed on it further by turning his observations about it into a best seller. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (1789 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 3 Ottobre 2008