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The New York Times ' Janet Maslin is dubious about the casting: "The man who talks to himself and mails long, delusional screeds to strangers is not usually the dreamboat type."
But the movie has a way of deflating all but the most delusional of hopes.
Activists grasp for another flamboyant mogul--Donald Trump, perhaps--to replace Ross Perot, while a bunch of delusional nuts promote their own candidacies for the party's presidential nomination.
"If I'm wrong about Y2K, I'll just check into the Betty Ford Clinic for delusional economists, publicly state that I'm on industrial-strength Prozac, and then ask for forgiveness," Ed Yardeni joked this past September.
The novel, the first by Chuck Palahniuk (the surname sounds like Eskimo for "palooka"--which somehow fits), walks a line between the straight and ironic--it isn't always clear if its glib sociological pronouncements are meant to be taken straight or as the ravings of a delusional mama's boy.