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Anderson takes everything fake in Cruise's acting--the face-pulling, the too-quick smile--and turns it into the character's own shtick, so that when the mask is pulled off you get a startling glimpse of the rage and fear under the pose.
I don't like Richie Aprile, the new thug on the block, precisely because he's such a malevolent thug, at least so far (yeah, he's a bit New Agey, but his whole yoga shtick feels forced, as if the writers decided that each and every character had to be a member of the sensitive, slightly feminized postmodern mob).
OK, enough with the superhero shtick.
(The Harvard shtick is largely that: Coz has spent his entire working life at the Enquirer .)
But by becoming a shtick, the observation of these qualities threatens to obliterate not only Gore's corresponding virtues but also any hope of his becoming president.