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Before I indentured myself to Microsoft and its stock options, I worked for a publication called the Washington City Paper . The City Paper is what journalists pretentiously call an "alternative weekly" and what everyone else calls a "rag."
Beatty pounds us over and over with his one joke and with slapsticky cuts to Bulworth's would-be assassin, until the movie arrives at a bad, pretentiously mystical ending.