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...
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