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As a former track wannabe and somebody with several postgraduate degrees, I took exception to this egregious statement in the May 21 Today's Papers:
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.
The entire heart of that character was his utter fearlessness at the prospect of dying; Rocky "goes yellow" only so that his reputation will be sullied among the youthful wannabe gangsters who idolize him.
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."
A "rancid little nothing of a movie" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.