I’ve got this friend who makes his own clothes. Not the generic kind cut from dowdy prairie-dress patterns, but chic, design-it-yourself garments that look better than most anything you’d find on a…
— kitted out in fake tan and freakishly white choppers — a chance to chew the scenery and then some. He’s certainly got the teeth for it.
Granted, it would be hard to be more vicious, as the film amplifies the bewildering egotism of Green’s 50th-birthday bash, an extravagant toga party thrown on the island of Cyprus, where he dressed as Emperor Nero and surrounded himself with hundreds of rich sycophants, to be collectively serenaded by Rod Stewart.
While this circus unfolds around him, McCreadie focuses on his birthday, demanding that a small arena be custom-built on Mykonos, complete with live lion.
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