A names-changed adaptation of the memoir by Toby Young (now Sidney Young) on his disastrous stint at Vanity Fair (now Sharps), an impudent Brit-wit, played impudently but not wittily by Britisher Simon Pegg, who aims to breathe a breath of foul air into the Manhattan beau monde. On screen it becomes a conventional romantic comedy about a flopping fish-out-of-water netted eventually by a beautiful co-worker (Kirsten Dunst) whose favorite movie, significantly, happens to be La Dolce Vita, the one to do with the journalist who sells his soul to mingle with the rich and famous. The whole thing plays to the groundlings: no bona fide Smart Set bon mots, but instead low-comedy pratfalls, puke, coke, a dead dog, a drag queen, and, as a climactic coup de grâce, an awards-show brawl on live television. With Jeff Bridges, Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson, and Danny Huston; directed by Robert Weide. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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