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In George Orwell's 1938 novel Coming up for Air , the protagonist muses on how years of such mockery transform a man:
1) The synopsis infers that the narrative is propelled by an incident--the protagonist loses his job--which in fact does not occur until the last 30 pages of the novel.
Anderson and his co-writer, Owen Wilson (who starred in the pair's last film, the tediously quirky 1996 Bottle Rocket ), play a funny game with their indefatigable protagonist.
EdTV takes off from the increasingly less outlandish idea that a cable network might, in the face of declining ratings, decide to have its cameras traipse around after an "ordinary" person 24 hours a day--a scenario somewhat different from last year's The Truman Show , in which the cameras were hidden, the universe manufactured, and the TV protagonist unwitting.
The brittle, shallow, single, gold-digging, thirtysomething protagonist of Janowitz's latest hate letter to Manhattan is pronounced so unpleasant as to make the entire novel (which follows her search for a suitably rich and connected husband) quite a drag: "A hateful heroine and a catalog of conspicuous consuming do not an amusing read make" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). "One of the least likable characters in modern fiction history.