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Double Your Self-Absorption
Lizzie plays both fan (of a star she's not yet heard sing) and star, an admittedly odd duality she handles with smiley aplomb
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Raising Victor Vargas opens on 16-year-old Victor posing. Cocking his hip and caressing his chest, he gazes steadfastly at the camera, plainly seductive in his own mind, more likely a little corny in yours
Television Without Pity : The Interview
PopPolitics speaks with the recappers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Identity Crisis
Identity has some OK cards up its sleeve. These include a plot twist or two, but mostly have to do with smart performances in conventional roles
System of Noir
Confidence opens with a bit of an homage to Sunset Boulevard's famous dead-guy-in-a-pool opening
Weightless Whiteness
Memory is a tricky business. So are movies that mess with it
Immoral Minority
Better Luck Tomorrow is glib sometimes, and it's a low budget project. It's also a smart and engaging high school movie with more on its mind than who's going to the prom
Faux Experience
In xx/xy, no one manages to be ''honest with each other''
Getting His Due
The primary thematic concern for Angel has been consumption -- appropriate for a show about a vampire, perhaps the paramount junkie and the ultimate consumer
Looking for Gold
The fact that Platinum looks closely at the excessive lives and appetites of hip-hop artists and producers is not in itself news; what is refreshing is that the attitude here is resolutely not straight