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![]() ![]() The Faustian bargain of high-profile, publicist-driven journalism is ripe for sendup, but with so many broadly drawn characters, the film has no satiric bite. The story’s dividing lines are nothing if not unambiguous. Not far beneath her flintiness she’s sweet and “real” - a Midwestern transplant who’s writing a novel in longhand, dontcha know, all too clearly setting her off from the superficial climbers around her. While riding elevators with lots of tall women in designer clothes, coveting a Tinseltown It girl (Megan Fox) and overturning every A-list apple cart he stumbles upon, Sidney falls for co-worker Alison (Kirsten Dunst). Sidney wants to believe that his mission is to inject some of the old Snipe (read: Spy) spirit into Sharps, but Clayton isn’t interested in what he has to offer. Clayton summons Sidney from London - where he publishes a snarky alternative mag from his apartment over a kebab joint - to the haute publishing world of New York. The protagonist here is Sidney Young, Vanity Fair is called Sharps, and its imperious rebel-turned-power-broker editor, Graydon Carter, is dubbed Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges). The names have been changed, just barely. ![]()
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