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Oh, by the way, I think you're giving short-shrift to Christopher, Tony's nephew and a wannabe made-man.
I find it absurd that he could ever have settled into life with his new family (especially a certifiably crazy mother) with no scars, growing into a happy, snub-nosed, uncomplicated adolescent instead of, say, the delusional momma's-boy assassin of Six Ways to Sunday --or, for that matter, a vaguely unstable wannabe movie critic.
But Variety 's Todd McCarthy says the movie "looks like a peroxided Clueless wannabe straggling along to the party two years after it's over."
As with Moody's last two novels ( Garden State , Ice Storm ), reviewers can't decide whether the young novelist is a hip Updike or a Pynchon wannabe.
Dowd notes that wannabe presidents are now getting "questioned for serving, not dodging" and thinks that some candidates might be worried about how they'll compare to "inspiring war hero" McCain.