Topic: Sidney Young

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Lacks Punch

Crosswalk - 1089 days ago
There is something about Conde Nast's publications-and editors-that prompts their writers to retaliate. Based on the 2001 memoir of the same name by Toby Young, a young Brit who wrote for Vanity Fair, the film details its protagonist's transformation from ...

Toby Young Still Alienating Graydon Carter

The New York Observer - 1231 days ago
Sunday's Los Angeles Times ran a short profile to remind you that the film version of Toby Young's bestselling 2001 memoir, How To Lose Friends & Starring Simon Pegg as "Sidney Young," the movie seems to be a loosely fictionailized version ...

BIG SCREEN: Movie Reviews

Marie Claire - 1238 days ago
A defanged adaptation of Toby Young's barbed memoir about being fired from Vanity Fair. Simon Pegg's bright-young-thing routine (as celebrity journo Sidney Young) becomes just plain goofy as he grasps for fame, a hot actress, and coworker Alison (Kirsten Dunst ...