Organized by Jacob and Jens Hoffmann, the exhibition is partly a sincere tribute; ample space is devoted to Marx Brothers films, photographs and ephemera.
And the show's last number is a largely sincere tribute to Stephen Sondheim, presenting him as the last of a race of titans.
The intellectual Gabriel Conroy, who doubts every piety of church and country, pays sincere tribute in his speech to "the tradition of genuine warm-hearted courteous Irish hospitality" upheld by his beloved aunts.
"We don't tell people to buy this instead of a Côtes du Rhône or a Minervois," said Matt Licklider, a partner, "but we do say that it's a sincere tribute to those inexpensive French wines".
Viewers weren't sure whether the work was intended as a wry critique of Penthouse readers, or rather as a sincere tribute to the ditsier members of the female sex.
It was a warmly sincere tribute, and a view that's clearly shared by so many in the orchestral world who knew the composer – one of the reasons there are so many performances this month marking Dutilleux's centenary.
Prior to the Blurred Lines judgment – in which a jury awarded $7.4m to Marvin Gaye's family – everyone would have happily accepted it was a sincere tribute to a Pharrell forebear.
This is not the usual icy manipulator but a man who genuinely grieves over Antony's spectacular ruin: when Hutson, after Antony's death, calls him "my mate in empire", you feel it is a sincere tribute to his memory rather than a piece of hypocritical hyperbole.
The character of the Dude was a wickedly irreverent send-up of the classic LA private eye, but also a sincere tribute: shambolic instead of sharp, two steps behind instead of one ahead, he was nevertheless indifferent to worldly temptations and instinctively inclined to do the right thing.
Bruce Paterson of the Australian Film Critics Association gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing that the generally poor reception for the film was "a sad fate for a surprisingly sincere tribute to Robert Wise's 1951 classic".
