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In the context of the book, Wickedly Funny must be interpreted as meaning cynical, bitter, sarcastic, though when it comes to people like Phyllis Diller, who is more vulgarly tragic (or tragically vulgar) than funny, it must include self-deprecating comments (Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves; My plastic surgeon told me my face looked like a bouquet of elbows).
Steven gives a winning, perhaps too self-deprecating speech, then holds his plaque high and crows, "I'm king of the room!"
Movie reviewers echo the music critics' pans of the popular Spice Girls and conclude that "sometimes the Zeitgeist counts for squat" (David Kronke, the Los Angeles Times ). The group's feature film, in which they're harassed by a tabloid reporter, is trashed as a "plotless, pointless, mirthless" knock-off of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post ). The pop stars do get credit for exhibiting self-deprecating humor and apparent awareness that "they have achieved ludicrous measures of fame and fortune on the strength of markedly limited talents" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). (Clips are available.)
Some see Gallo as the heir to Scorsese and the '70s neorealists, with the "audacity and flair of a major filmmaker" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They applaud his stylistic flourishes (collage shots, freeze frames), his self-deprecating humor, and audacious premise--a newly released prisoner kidnaps a teen tap dancer (Christina Ricci) to be his fake wife.
The self-deprecating, nonpolitical portrayal earns him advance exposure with what would be a hard-to-reach constituency if he ran for president in 2000.
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