Show all (5)This fish-out-of-water tale tracks the escapades of Sidney Young, a smalltime, bumbling, British celebrity journalist. After disrupting one black-tie event by allowing a wild pig to run rampant, Sidney catches the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of Sharp, and accepts a job with the magazine in New York City. Clayton warns Sidney that he'd better impress and charm everyone he can, if he wants to succeed. Instead, Sidney instantly insults and annoys fellow writer Alison Olsen. He dares to tar
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After "The Devil Wears Prada" detailed an up-and-comer at Vogue magazine, "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" attempts to do the same with Vanity Fair. Cross your fingers that Hollywood eventually gets to Field & Stream.
Based on the memoir by Toby Young, "How to Lose Friends" is about a British journalist named Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) hired from across the pond to come to New York and write celebrity profiles for Sharps magazine - a clear stand-in for Vanity Fair, complete with a doppelganger for Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter, played by Jeff Bridges.
Pegg's Sidney is your classic Brit in the Big City, but perhaps not in the way you'd expect. Surrounded by serious, unfunny and superficial colleagues, he's a loutish, uncool party crasher who cheerfully claims "Con Air" is the greatest film ever made.
In "How to Lose Friends," Americans are the ones that need to loosen up. But when did we Yanks become the straight men? After centuries of casting the British - with their etiquette and their tea (Full review)