Word: mediaspeak
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...Stardust Memories, he attempted to order these thoughts on film and was roundly criticized for so doing. In that story of a comedian oppressed by his own fame, he was unable to achieve the distance and objectivity he needed. Zelig's form provides both. Acutely satirizing mediaspeak, the film hilariously exposes the vulgarizations and misleading distortions of that language. At the same time, it touchingly demonstrates that celebrity is a kind of victimization, capable of claiming the souls of those who have some skill or talent, no matter how strange or silly, that is marketable...
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