This ambitious satire of fame mongering is further undermined by a fatal conceptual confusion as it tries to juggle three ideas at once.
In her defense, he was going by a fake name so that he could sort the true gems from the fame mongers.
"Henry Fool," which skewered fame-mongering and the deification of art, was a whimsical mock epic but had enough of a soul to make you care about its cast of oddball eccentrics from Woodside, Queens.
This ambitious study of fame-mongering would like to think of itself as a descendant of "Sweet Smell of Success," but it fails to find contemporary corollaries to the earlier film's super-charged language and caffeine-fueled pace.
However, Eiglarsh and his celebrity co-counsel, Brian Claypool, hope to bolster their client's defense by painting the cops and the prosecutor who took down Dippolito as fame-mongers who engaged in bizarre conduct.
Stars raise awareness, but with heightened visibility come the problems endemic to fame — scandals, P.R.-mongering, wavering commitment, and what Berger calls "the cluelessness factor" — all of which can undermine support for a cause.
The biggest area of business is bank capital-raising, and success there may be a mixed blessing, given recent underwriting losses.Will the fame of the gloom-mongers be as fleeting as that of Ms Meeker and Mr Blodget?
Stars raise awareness, but with heightened visibility come the problems endemic to fame-scandals, PR-mongering, wavering commitment and what Berger calls "the cluelessness factor".
George Bernard Shaw, writing in 1898, accused Mendelssohn of "despicable oratorio-mongering"; for all his fame, he said, he "was not in the foremost rank of great composers".
