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Here's an example of how De Palma works: The villain is searching for a young woman (Gugino), who, trapped in the hotel-casino, has pretended to be a whore, latched onto a fat man at a gaming table, and disappeared with him into his room.
They were all envious, or pretended to be, which was just as gratifying.
It helps that Russell is fueled by genuine outrage at that most jumbled and arm's length of wars: the one that pretended to be about the "liberation of the people of Kuwait"; the one that ended up (once the oil wells were recaptured) rebounding on Iraqis who'd been convinced by President Bush to take up arms against Saddam Hussein.
Louis Farrakhan all pretended to be reasonable people on CNN's Evans & Novak . After Farrakhan left the set, Novak congratulated himself and Farrakhan for exhibiting such good talk-show manners.
Among the most important distortions she exposes are: an invented psychology degree from the University of Vienna; pretended acquaintance with Freud; guardianship of an autistic child whom his first wife in fact tended; unreliable accounts of his ordeals in Dachau and Buchenwald; and exaggerated claims of success as a benevolent savior of emotionally disturbed children at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago.