Celebrity Sickness

From today's NYTImes:

You don’t need to read Perez Hilton to know that the celebrity-industrial commentariat has expanded exponentially. Tom DeCillo’s wicked satire, “Delirious,” "shows the toxic virus of fame squirming and multiplying under its lens,” The story of a paparazzo (Steve Buscemi, in “a courageously repulsive performance”) and his assistant-turned-star (Michael Pitt), and with cameos by the likes of Elvis Costello (himself), it's as viscerally degrading as Martin Scorsese’s “King of Comedy.” “You leave the movie feeling as though you have gazed into a closed circle of hell where everybody feeds off everyone else,” Mr. Holden writes. That ought to cure you of your Perez Hilton habit.

“Along Both Sides of the Velvet Rope, Shallowness Reigns Supreme,” by Stephen Holden and “Smoldering Auteur With a Short Fuse,” by John Anderson.