Word: fakeness
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...groups is blurbed as "the kind of infectious it's good to spread around." The same goes for this film: the sweetest and funniest of Guest's true-life fake-umentaries...
Many of the pieces leaned towards the evocative and politically conscious rather than the campy. Fake checks from the “Bank of the Lapsed Conscience” showed the $3.75 billion given by the United States to Israel each year in aid and cited statistics of human rights abuses that tax dollars allegedly support. And under a large sign reading “Fear is Love,” audience members saw video footage of the other room of the two-room ArtSpace—realizing all their movements were recorded as they moved among the works...
...jump start on their careers at Abercrombie by purchasing the necessary clothing for their job at the home office itself, despite the full scale Abercrombie store on the premises. The store set up inside the headquarters, while fully stocked, isn’t real. Like the fake secretaries on the way in, the employees there also aren’t technically salespeople, because nothing in the store is for sale. Pretend employees pretend to stock and manage the store as a prototype for how every Abercrombie store must look and run. All those casually thrown on belts...
...ordinary youngsters? Or do they just play them on TV? Duff and Bynes seem to pull it off: nice girls with a grownup sense of proportion. "I pride myself on not being Hollywood," Bynes says. "I could go to the parties and stuff, but for me it's so fake. I know my whole career is based on being perky, but I'm more laid back than people would assume." Duff, when asked about her family, includes the dogs, as if they naturally belong with her parents and elder sister. For her, Hollywood is just a place to work...
...whose back wall is covered with a game board-like metal grid. The set, as Downer describes it, is “removed from reality,” and underlines Florence’s realization that “what she’s doing is basically fake.” Florence leaves Freddie Trumper for his Russian counterpart, played by Benjamin D. Margo ’04-05, who is also a Crimson editor...