Be Cool - with John Travolta, Uma Thurman, and the Rock. Which seem to be the three main reasons to go see this movie. The metafiction was interesting, as it was in Get Shorty, but was just on the wrong side of tasteful at points, probably half because they already did that in Get Shorty. Travolta's Chili Palmer is my new hero, Thurman is great as usual, but most of the other characters were clever only in their characterization or stereotypes, and Vince Vaughn's character was annoying before his first scene was over. So, some good things, some bad things, but not quite balanced.
      Tangentially, I think this movie might be a good deal more interesting if one were to read it as a riff on one of William Gibson's novels (not sure which, it might be Neuromancer), at any rate the one that is centered around the idea of considering celebrity status as having reached a certain critical mass of attention and information output, after which one is a celebrity regardless of what happens next.

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