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The moon is an uneven and pockmarked rock, and Jupiter upstages Earth by having multiple moons.
school of movie making, in which razzle-dazzle outshines content and the auteur upstages his own work.
The raunchy patter between Eastwood and James Woods as his editor in chief might have made for classic scenes if the former had known how to rein in the latter: Woods has ballooned into such a self-congratulatory grotesque that he now upstages his own blowhard characters.
It's no wonder that Robert McKee, the spiritual father of something like Rounders , reserves a special place in hell for Welles and Citizen Kane , in which the exhibitionistic auteur incessantly upstages his own narrative.
Dissenting in the Wall Street Journal , Russ Smith says the current hubbub upstages Kurtz's best material, rendering it moldy and boring.