There is only a low-rent version of the traditional sports story, winners and losers, which makes the XFL a casualty of, not an antidote to, narrative exhaustion.
He hoped he looked like a writer, an artist thinking thoughts that no one had ever thought before, and not just some miserable graduate student, trapped in a low-rent version of Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks".
How many congressional spouses sport a tongue ring and appear on a low-rent version of "Dancing With the Stars?" Like her husband, Kucinich's third wife, Elizabeth, isn't the conventional sort.
It was hardly the sprawling bachelor lair I had envisioned; instead, it was a flimsy pre-fab modular, a low-rent version of the kind in "The Truman Show".
Brilliantly positioned as a comic, low-rent version of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Salvatore Bono and Cherilyn Sarkisian dubbed themselves Sonny and Cher and scored big, in 1965, with "I Got You Babe," a kind of answer to Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe".
Perhaps, like me, you have driven by and occasionally stopped in a dollar store and assumed that there were two kinds of customers, those there for the kitschy pleasure of it all — the Heather Manns of the world — and those for whom the dollar store affords a low-rent version of the American Consumer Experience, a place where the poor can splurge.
He hoped he looked like a writer, an artist thinking thoughts that no one had ever thought before, and not just some miserable graduate student, trapped in a low-rent version of Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks". Alone at Tut's late at night, he played the same Paula Abdul song on the jukebox over and over.
On Losers the Toronto scion of a broken home who spent his teenage years living a low-rent version of the debauched existence portrayed in his music, justifies his disavowal of education and conventional society and lays out his ambitions ("Now we're coming for the throne").
Enter the "Demolition Crew," a bunch of Z-list DC villains who serve as a low-rent version of their Marvel cousins the "Wrecking Crew".
"They call it a 'hidden gem,' this whole alley". It's a funky, unpolished outpost with an Old World, kitschy vibe, like a low-rent version of Universal CityWalk.
No, he packed up his ugly anger and he took it to the set of "To Have and To Hold," where Megan filmed a wooden scene that played out like a very low-rent version of dozens of Don Draper seduction scenes.
