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He's a national Rorschach test: America periodically concocts a new Sinatra to fit the Zeitgeist .
Movie reviewers echo the music critics' pans of the popular Spice Girls and conclude that "sometimes the Zeitgeist counts for squat" (David Kronke, the Los Angeles Times ). The group's feature film, in which they're harassed by a tabloid reporter, is trashed as a "plotless, pointless, mirthless" knock-off of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post ). The pop stars do get credit for exhibiting self-deprecating humor and apparent awareness that "they have achieved ludicrous measures of fame and fortune on the strength of markedly limited talents" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). (Clips are available.)
Pundit Margaret Carlson of Time pronounced it "an antidote to the zeitgeist of the '80s, when middle-aged tycoons and their acolytes could suddenly drop an inconvenient first wife without social opprobrium," and predicted the film would spark the kind of debate provoked by Thelma & Louise . The Los Angeles Times envisioned a reversal of Hollywood's bias toward male actors: "Could it be that being middle-aged and female has become a Hollywood box-office asset?"
One even hopes they are insincere, an attempt by Anderson to stay in step with the Zeitgeist of the '90s and the Promise Keepers.
Seizing on Fielding's allusions to Pride and Prejudice , critics declare Diary an Austenlike comedy of manners that captures the Zeitgeist . They praise the protagonist's caustic humor for providing an antidote to her "perfectly coiffed ...
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