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Critics call this depressing coke-fueled vision of '80s Hollywood lowlifes more an actors' showcase than a drama: It's "a tedious circus of apoplectic speeches and explosive thespian snit fits" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey both give keen performances as strung-out movie-biz sharks, but most of the film is just talk (it was adapted from David Rabe's play), with a few bits of sex and violence the only action.
A nanny with suspiciously strung-out friends.
The view is conspiratorial, not in the strung-out, scandalized manner of Oliver Stone's JFK but in a cool, ironic way.
As Leigh skips back and forth between past and present, he spotlights the contrast between the well-coiffed woman and strung-out teen-ager; gradually, the two incarnations merge.
The basic problem is that the editors did not seem able to make value judgments regarding the amount of space to be devoted to the entries: on the one hand we find acid house, chaos theory, and desktop publishing, none of them succinctly written, on the other, long, strung-out entries on Steffi Graff, Margaret Atwood, and Paul McCartney, and to what avail?