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Only one correspondent was hostile: "You're probably just running a scam to collect a bunch of upscale e-mail addresses," he wrote, dyspeptically and inaccurately.
) More important, it has the Farrellys' characteristic mix of misery and brightness: Whenever the view of the working poor threatens to become oppressively self-pitying, the filmmakers pull something nutty out of their hat--a scam, a bit of stoner dialogue, a jolt of rock 'n' roll--to prove that this particular end only looks dead.
On the basis of his script and performance, Steve Martin's vision of moviemaking is of a scam perpetrated by hustling morons.
So, too, when halfway through a report on cases of fraud, a local Consumer Affairs reporter for NBC News, Ursula Lipari, said, This was obviously a sham, some listeners knew that scam was the word she should have used.
What a scam!