![]() ![]() She tosses him meaningless busywork, but Young insists he's there to shake things up. Of course, that first lady turns out to be Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst, "Marie Antoinette," "Spider-Man 3"), the woman who is put in charge of helping him learn the ropes at his new job. He spends his first night in a bar where he insults a bookish young lady waiting for a man who never appears, then gets completely drunk with another. Young lands in a New York City apartment ruled with an iron fist by a nosy Polish landlady (Miriam Margoyles, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"). The film's bright spots are Bridges's coy impersonation of Graydon Carter (which nonetheless suffers from ambiguity) and Gillian Anderson's ("The X Files: I Want to Believe") killer PR shark Eleanor Johnson. ![]() Since affiliating himself with the Yanks, Simon Pegg's stock is falling. Adapted by Peter Straughan ("Sixty Six") from author Toby Young's thinly veiled account of his employ at Vanity Fair, "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" is all bark and no bite, the behind the scenes machinations of a hugely influential magazine used as mere window dressing for an uninspired romantic comedy. ![]()
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