Those fake reviews from Sony

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Here's from Duncan Shepherd in SDReader:
Re: the big stink over the make-believe movie critic invented by Sony Pictures so that he could praise their products in their ads. ("The producing team of Big Daddy has delivered another winner!" -- Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press, on The Animal.) Let us by all means breathe deeply of it. But let's waste no time on a show of shock and surprise, unless it be shock and surprise that, with so many shills, whores, and softies among actual practicing critics, such a fabrication would be deemed necessary. Let's instead go straight to glee and gladness that the spotlight now shines so brightly on the element of fiction in critical blurbs. This doesn't begin and end with the Critic Who Never Was. It extends to the deliberate deceptions in taking quotations out of context. It extends to the ghost-written blurbs which co-operative critics will consent to put their names to. And it extends even to fully autonomous and self-respecting critics who gull themselves into believing their own exaggerations, laxities, lies.

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Topic - Those fake reviews from Sony - clarkjohnsen 11:53:19 06/16/01 (5)

"...riveting!..."--Gannett News - TAFKA Steve 16:22:35 06/16/01 (3)

A few more ad quotes for films to avoid. - TAFKA Steve 07:41:42 06/17/01 (2)

Steve, also: "The Feel Good Movie of the (insert season here)!!!" (nt) - Rick Bennett 15:45:50 06/18/01 (1)

Also: "...even better than the video game!" (nt) - TAFKA Steve 17:50:29 06/18/01 (0)

Re: Those fake reviews from Sony - caa 14:05:50 06/16/01 (0)

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